Spanish word
esperar
/espeˈɾaɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 788 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to wait
- to hopetransitive
- to expecttransitive
- to wait, wait (for)intransitive, transitive
- to wait, to hold on (reflexive for emphatic use)Latin-America, colloquial, intransitive, reflexive
- to be expectedimpersonal, reflexive
- abide(wait in expectation)
- await(transitive: to wait for)
- expect(to look for, look forward to, anticipate)
- hold out(to wait for something better)
- hold up(to wait or delay)
- hope(to want something to happen, with expectation that it might)
- stand by(to wait in expectation of some event)
- trust(to hope confidently)
- wait(delay until some event)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)