emprestar
Spanish, verb/empɾesˈtaɾ/
emprestar is spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written Spanish, the 314,558th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emprestar is a Spanish verb meaning “to lend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Prestar”.
What does emprestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Latin-Americato lend
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prestar 2. Solicitar en préstamo.
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 emprestar
- empresto first-person present singular
- empresté first-person preterite singular
- emprestado participle past
- emprestando gerund
- emprestada feminine participle past
- emprestados masculine participle past
- emprestadas feminine participle past
- emprestas indicative informal present
- emprestás indicative informal present
- empresta indicative present singular
- emprestamos first-person indicative plural
- emprestáis indicative plural present
- emprestan indicative plural present
- emprestaba first-person imperfect indicative
- emprestabas imperfect indicative second-person
- emprestábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- emprestabais imperfect indicative plural
- emprestaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emprestar?
- /empɾesˈtaɾ/
- [ẽm.pɾesˈt̪aɾ]
- [ẽmpɾesˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emprestar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emprestar in Spanish?
emprestar appears about once in every 83 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).