aumentar
Spanish, verb/aumenˈtaɾ/
aumentar is spelled A-U-M-E-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 42 times per million words in written Spanish, the 2,079th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aumentar is a Spanish verb meaning “to increase, grow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer más grande una cantidad, número, extensión, volumen, importancia o magnitud”.
What does aumentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to increase, grow
- 2
to increase, augment
- 3
to enhance
- 4
to accumulate, to increase
- 5
to augment
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer más grande una cantidad, número, extensión, volumen, importancia o magnitud. 2. Mejorar en condiciones de vida.
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 aumentar
- aumento first-person present singular
- aumenté first-person preterite singular
- aumentado participle past
- aumentando gerund
- aumentada feminine participle past
- aumentados masculine participle past
- aumentadas feminine participle past
- aumentas indicative informal present
- aumentás indicative informal present
- aumenta indicative present singular
- aumentamos first-person indicative plural
- aumentáis indicative plural present
- aumentan indicative plural present
- aumentaba first-person imperfect indicative
- aumentabas imperfect indicative second-person
- aumentábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- aumentabais imperfect indicative plural
- aumentaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aumentar?
- /aumenˈtaɾ/
- [au̯.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- [awmẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aumentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aumentar in Spanish?
aumentar appears 42 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).