permitir

B1Rank #2362

to allow, permit

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#2362 of 5,000

Conjugate permitir - all tenses →

No puedo permitirme comprarlo.

I can't allow myself to buy it.

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"permitir" in example sentences

"permitir" appears in 238 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 33 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

¿Por qué se permite?

Why is that allowed?

Tatoeba #11986113

Yo permitiré esto.

I'll allow this.

Tatoeba #4317590

Eso no lo puedo permitir.

I can't allow that.

Tatoeba #5132763

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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