quebrantar
Spanish, verb/kebɾanˈtaɾ/
quebrantar is spelled Q-U-E-B-R-A-N-T-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 43,425th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quebrantar is a Spanish verb meaning “to break (physically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Romper una cosa con fuerza”.
What does quebrantar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to break (physically)
- 2
to break (e.g. someone's spirit, one's faith or trust, one's power)
- 3
to break, to breach (e.g. peace, the rules, a policy, a principle)
- 4
to break down, to be broken (typically used figuratively)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Romper una cosa con fuerza. 2. Debilitar una cosa dejándola de modo que corra riesgo de romperse. 3. Incumplir una norma haciendo precisamente lo que está prohibido. 4. Elevar la temperatura de un líquido, especialmente si se trata de agua.
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 quebrantar
- quebranto first-person present singular
- quebranté first-person preterite singular
- quebrantado participle past
- quebrantando gerund
- quebrantada feminine participle past
- quebrantados masculine participle past
- quebrantadas feminine participle past
- quebrantas indicative informal present
- quebrantás indicative informal present
- quebranta indicative present singular
- quebrantamos first-person indicative plural
- quebrantáis indicative plural present
- quebrantan indicative plural present
- quebrantaba first-person imperfect indicative
- quebrantabas imperfect indicative second-person
- quebrantábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- quebrantabais imperfect indicative plural
- quebrantaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quebrantar?
- /kebɾanˈtaɾ/
- [ke.β̞ɾãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- [keβ̞ɾãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quebrantar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quebrantar in Spanish?
quebrantar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).