arreglárselas
Spanish, verb/areˈɡlaɾselas/
arreglárselas is spelled A-R-R-E-G-L-Á-R-S-E-L-A-S (13 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 52,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arreglárselas is a Spanish verb meaning “to cope, to make do, to get by, to get along, to manage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does arreglárselas mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cope, to make do, to get by, to get along, to manage
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 arreglárselas
- me las arreglo first-person present singular
- me las arreglé first-person preterite singular
- las arreglado participle past
- arreglándoselas gerund
- las arreglada feminine participle past
- las arreglados masculine participle past
- las arregladas feminine participle past
- arreglármelas first-person infinitive singular
- arreglártelas infinitive second-person singular
- arreglárnoslas first-person infinitive plural
- arreglároslas infinitive plural second-person
- arreglándomelas first-person gerund singular
- arreglándotelas gerund second-person singular
- arreglándonoslas first-person gerund plural
- arreglándooslas gerund plural second-person
- te las arreglas indicative informal present
- te las arreglás indicative informal present
- se las arregla indicative present singular
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arreglárselas?
- /areˈɡlaɾselas/
- [a.reˈɣ̞laɾ.se.las]
- [areˈɣ̞laɾselas]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arreglárselas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arreglárselas in Spanish?
arreglárselas appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).