sustituir
Spanish, verb/sustiˈtwiɾ/
sustituir is a Spanish verb meaning “to replace, to take the place of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner una cosa o persona en lugar de otra”.
What does sustituir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to replace, to take the place of
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner una cosa o persona en lugar de otra. 2. Tomar el lugar que ocupaba otra persona en un cargo o condición, de manera temporal o permanente.
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 sustituir
- sustituyo first-person present singular
- sustituí first-person preterite singular
- sustituido participle past
- sustituyendo gerund
- sustituida feminine participle past
- sustituidos masculine participle past
- sustituidas feminine participle past
- sustituyes indicative informal present
- sustituís indicative informal present
- sustituye indicative present singular
- sustituimos first-person indicative plural
- sustituyen indicative plural present
- sustituía first-person imperfect indicative
- sustituías imperfect indicative second-person
- sustituíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sustituíais imperfect indicative plural
- sustituían imperfect indicative plural
- sustituiste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustituir?
- /sustiˈtwiɾ/
- [sus.t̪iˈt̪wiɾ]
- [sust̪iˈt̪wiɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sustituir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sustituir in Spanish?
sustituir appears 7.6 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).