ampliar
Spanish, verb/amˈpljaɾ/
ampliar is spelled A-M-P-L-I-A-R (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,928th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ampliar is a Spanish verb meaning “to extend, expand, enlarge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer más amplio, aumentar o hacer más grande en tamaño, profundidad, contenido, cantidad, duración o…”.
What does ampliar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to extend, expand, enlarge
- 2
to broaden, to widen, to further
- 3
to elaborate on, to expand on
- 4
to magnify, to blow up, to enlarge, to scale up (e.g. a photograph, a model)
- 5
to expand, to extend (itself, oneself)
- 6
to be extended, to be expanded, to be broadened, to be enlarged, to be widened, to be increased, to be scaled up
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer más amplio, aumentar o hacer más grande en tamaño, profundidad, contenido, cantidad, duración o alcance; extender los límites de algo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ampliar
- amplío first-person present singular
- amplié first-person preterite singular
- ampliado participle past
- i-í alternation
- ampliando gerund
- ampliada feminine participle past
- ampliados masculine participle past
- ampliadas feminine participle past
- amplías indicative informal present
- ampliás indicative informal present
- amplía indicative present singular
- ampliamos first-person indicative plural
- ampliáis indicative plural present
- amplían indicative plural present
- ampliaba first-person imperfect indicative
- ampliabas imperfect indicative second-person
- ampliábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ampliabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ampliar?
- /amˈpljaɾ/
- [ãmˈpljaɾ]
- [ãmpliˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ampliar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ampliar in Spanish?
ampliar appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).