apañárselas
Spanish, verb/apaˈɲaɾselas/
apañárselas is spelled A-P-A-Ñ-Á-R-S-E-L-A-S (11 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish, the 138,166th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apañárselas is a Spanish verb meaning “to cope, get by, get along” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does apañárselas mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cope, get by, get along
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. Componérselas.
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 apañárselas
- me las apaño first-person present singular
- me las apañé first-person preterite singular
- las apañado participle past
- apañándoselas gerund
- las apañada feminine participle past
- las apañados masculine participle past
- las apañadas feminine participle past
- apañármelas first-person infinitive singular
- apañártelas infinitive second-person singular
- apañárnoslas first-person infinitive plural
- apañároslas infinitive plural second-person
- apañándomelas first-person gerund singular
- apañándotelas gerund second-person singular
- apañándonoslas first-person gerund plural
- apañándooslas gerund plural second-person
- te las apañas indicative informal present
- te las apañás indicative informal present
- se las apaña indicative present singular
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apañárselas?
- /apaˈɲaɾselas/
- [a.paˈɲaɾ.se.las]
- [apaˈɲaɾselas]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apañárselas in Spanish?
apañárselas appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).