sustanciar
Spanish, verb/sustanˈθjaɾ/
sustanciar is spelled S-U-S-T-A-N-C-I-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish, the 189,865th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustanciar is a Spanish verb meaning “to try or litigate a case” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sustanciar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to try or litigate a case
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sustanciar
- sustancio first-person present singular
- sustancié first-person preterite singular
- sustanciado participle past
- sustanciando gerund
- sustanciada feminine participle past
- sustanciados masculine participle past
- sustanciadas feminine participle past
- sustancias indicative informal present
- sustanciás indicative informal present
- sustancia indicative present singular
- sustanciamos first-person indicative plural
- sustanciáis indicative plural present
- sustancian indicative plural present
- sustanciaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sustanciabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sustanciábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sustanciabais imperfect indicative plural
- sustanciaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustanciar?
- /sustanˈθjaɾ/
- [sus.t̪ãn̟ˈθjaɾ]
- /sustanˈsjaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sustanciar in Spanish?
sustanciar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).