aguantar

B2Rank #3218

to stand, to bear, to put up with

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#3218 of 5,000

Conjugate aguantar - all tenses →

Para nadar bajo el agua, uno tiene que ser capaz de aguantar la respiración.

In order to swim underwater, one has to be able to hold one's breath.

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"aguantar" in example sentences

"aguantar" appears in 98 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 32 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

No lo aguanto.

I can't stand it.

Tatoeba #892045

¿Por qué aguantas eso?

Why do you put up with that?

Tatoeba #2653043

Eso es más de lo que puedo aguantar.

It is more than I can stand.

Tatoeba #1753508

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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