apoyar
Spanish, verb/apoˈʝaɾ/
apoyar is spelled A-P-O-Y-A-R (6 letters) and appears 43 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,020th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apoyar is a Spanish verb meaning “to lean, to rest, to lie or lay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de un bebé: tomar la leche de la teta”.
What does apoyar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lean, to rest, to lie or lay
- 2
to support, to get behind (to back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid)
- 3
to support (to keep from falling)
Te apoyo.
- 4
to lean, to rest, to be supported
- 5
to lean on, to rely on
- 6
to be based, to be founded
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dicho de un bebé: tomar la leche de la teta.
verb: 1. Hacer que una cosa descanse sobre otra. 2. Estar una cosa misma encima de otra. 3. Dar soporte, sustentar. 4. Aumentar el grado de probabilidad de una conjetura.
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 apoyar
- apoyo first-person present singular
- apoyé first-person preterite singular
- apoyado participle past
- apoyando gerund
- apoyada feminine participle past
- apoyados masculine participle past
- apoyadas feminine participle past
- apoyas indicative informal present
- apoyás indicative informal present
- apoya indicative present singular
- apoyamos first-person indicative plural
- apoyáis indicative plural present
- apoyan indicative plural present
- apoyaba first-person imperfect indicative
- apoyabas imperfect indicative second-person
- apoyábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- apoyabais imperfect indicative plural
- apoyaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apoyar?
- /apoˈʝaɾ/
- [a.poˈʝaɾ]
- [apoˈʝaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apoyar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apoyar in Spanish?
apoyar appears 43 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).