sustentar
Spanish, verb/sustenˈtaɾ/
sustentar is spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Spanish, the 25,151st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustentar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sustain, support, underpin (physically)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sustentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sustain, support, underpin (physically)
- 2
to sustain, support, hold (i.e. provide resources)
- 3
to support, underpin, uphold
- 4
to be supported, be underpinned, be sustained
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of sustentar
- sustento first-person present singular
- sustenté first-person preterite singular
- sustentado participle past
- sustentando gerund
- sustentada feminine participle past
- sustentados masculine participle past
- sustentadas feminine participle past
- sustentas indicative informal present
- sustentás indicative informal present
- sustenta indicative present singular
- sustentamos first-person indicative plural
- sustentáis indicative plural present
- sustentan indicative plural present
- sustentaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sustentabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sustentábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sustentabais imperfect indicative plural
- sustentaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustentar?
- /sustenˈtaɾ/
- [sus.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sustentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sustentar in Spanish?
sustentar appears 1.7 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).