sobrellevar
Spanish, verb/sobɾeʝeˈbaɾ/
sobrellevar is spelled S-O-B-R-E-L-L-E-V-A-R (11 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,508th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sobrellevar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cope with, to endure, to bear; to put up with” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Llevar uno encima o a cuestas una carga o peso para aliviar a otro”.
What does sobrellevar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cope with, to endure, to bear; to put up with
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Llevar uno encima o a cuestas una carga o peso para aliviar a otro. 2. Ayudar a sufrir los trabajos o molestias de la vida. 3. Resignarse a ellos el mismo paciente. 4. Disimular y suplir los defectos o descuidos de otro.
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 sobrellevar
- sobrellevo first-person present singular
- sobrellevé first-person preterite singular
- sobrellevado participle past
- sobrellevando gerund
- sobrellevada feminine participle past
- sobrellevados masculine participle past
- sobrellevadas feminine participle past
- sobrellevas indicative informal present
- sobrellevás indicative informal present
- sobrelleva indicative present singular
- sobrellevamos first-person indicative plural
- sobrelleváis indicative plural present
- sobrellevan indicative plural present
- sobrellevaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sobrellevabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sobrellevábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sobrellevabais imperfect indicative plural
- sobrellevaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sobrellevar?
- /sobɾeʝeˈbaɾ/
- [so.β̞ɾe.ʝeˈβ̞aɾ]
- [soβ̞ɾeʝeˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sobrellevar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sobrellevar in Spanish?
sobrellevar appears 1.5 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).