pender
Spanish, verb/penˈdeɾ/
pender is spelled P-E-N-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 93,848th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pender is a Spanish verb meaning “to hang, dangle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de alguna cosa: estar colgada, suspendida en el espacio”.
What does pender mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hang, dangle
- 2
to be pending, to be undecided
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dicho de alguna cosa: estar colgada, suspendida en el espacio. 2. Variante poco usada de depender. 3. Estar por resolverse o terminarse un pleito o negocio.
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 pender
- pendo first-person present singular
- pendí first-person preterite singular
- pendido participle past
- pendiendo gerund
- pendida feminine participle past
- pendidos masculine participle past
- pendidas feminine participle past
- pendes indicative informal present
- pendés indicative informal present
- pende indicative present singular
- pendemos first-person indicative plural
- pendéis indicative plural present
- penden indicative plural present
- pendía first-person imperfect indicative
- pendías imperfect indicative second-person
- pendíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pendíais imperfect indicative plural
- pendían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pender?
- /penˈdeɾ/
- [pẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pender in Spanish?
pender appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).