sobrevivir
Spanish, verb/sobɾebiˈbiɾ/
sobrevivir is spelled S-O-B-R-E-V-I-V-I-R (10 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,991st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sobrevivir is a Spanish verb meaning “to survive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Vivir más que otros, quedar viviendo después de otro o después de algún suceso de riesgo”.
What does sobrevivir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to survive
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vivir más que otros, quedar viviendo después de otro o después de algún suceso de riesgo. 2. Vivir en condiciones difíciles, especialmente de tipo económico. 3. Continuar existiendo a través del tiempo o a pesar de ciertas condiciones adversas.
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 sobrevivir
- sobrevivo first-person present singular
- sobreviví first-person preterite singular
- sobrevivido participle past
- sobreviviendo gerund
- sobrevivida feminine participle past
- sobrevividos masculine participle past
- sobrevividas feminine participle past
- sobrevives indicative informal present
- sobrevivís indicative informal present
- sobrevive indicative present singular
- sobrevivimos first-person indicative plural
- sobreviven indicative plural present
- sobrevivía first-person imperfect indicative
- sobrevivías imperfect indicative second-person
- sobrevivíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sobrevivíais imperfect indicative plural
- sobrevivían imperfect indicative plural
- sobreviviste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sobrevivir?
- /sobɾebiˈbiɾ/
- [so.β̞ɾe.β̞iˈβ̞iɾ]
- [soβ̞ɾeβ̞iˈβ̞iɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sobrevivir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sobrevivir in Spanish?
sobrevivir appears 20 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).