apoderar
Spanish, verb/apodeˈɾaɾ/
apoderar is spelled A-P-O-D-E-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 112,257th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apoderar is a Spanish verb meaning “to empower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dar poder una persona a otra para que la represente en juicio o fuera de él”.
What does apoderar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to empower
- 2
to seize, to gain, to get hold of, to get one's hands on
- 3
to take control, to take possession
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dar poder una persona a otra para que la represente en juicio o fuera de él. 2. Poner en poder de alguno una cosa o darle la posesión de ella.
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 apoderar
- apodero first-person present singular
- apoderé first-person preterite singular
- apoderado participle past
- apoderando gerund
- apoderada feminine participle past
- apoderados masculine participle past
- apoderadas feminine participle past
- apoderas indicative informal present
- apoderás indicative informal present
- apodera indicative present singular
- apoderamos first-person indicative plural
- apoderáis indicative plural present
- apoderan indicative plural present
- apoderaba first-person imperfect indicative
- apoderabas imperfect indicative second-person
- apoderábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- apoderabais imperfect indicative plural
- apoderaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apoderar?
- /apodeˈɾaɾ/
- [a.po.ð̞eˈɾaɾ]
- [apoð̞eˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apoderar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apoderar in Spanish?
apoderar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).