elevar
Spanish, verb/eleˈbaɾ/
elevar is spelled E-L-E-V-A-R (6 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,486th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elevar is a Spanish verb meaning “to elevate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mover hacia arriba, poner en un lugar más alto”.
What does elevar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to elevate
- 2
to raise; lift up
- 3
to raise (a number) (to a power)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mover hacia arriba, poner en un lugar más alto. 2. Hacer mayor la intensidad, la fuerza, el volumen, el valor, la calidad y otras cualidades de algo. 3. Nombrar a alguien en un puesto o cargo. 4. Subir de categoría a alguien en un puesto o cargo mejor que el que poseía antes.
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 elevar
- elevo first-person present singular
- elevé first-person preterite singular
- elevado participle past
- elevando gerund
- elevada feminine participle past
- elevados masculine participle past
- elevadas feminine participle past
- elevas indicative informal present
- elevás indicative informal present
- eleva indicative present singular
- elevamos first-person indicative plural
- eleváis indicative plural present
- elevan indicative plural present
- elevaba first-person imperfect indicative
- elevabas imperfect indicative second-person
- elevábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- elevabais imperfect indicative plural
- elevaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce elevar?
- /eleˈbaɾ/
- [e.leˈβ̞aɾ]
- [eleˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to elevar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elevar in Spanish?
elevar appears 7.9 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).