Spanish word
mantener
/manteˈneɾ/
Not taught in the course yet
- Part of speech
- verb
- Frequency
- No. 431 in the course corpus
Meanings
- to keeptransitive
- to maintain, to supporttransitive
- to sustain, to preserve, to retain, to upholdtransitive
- to maintain, continue, to keep uptransitive
- to stay, to remaintransitive
- to maintain, to keep, to stay, to remainreflexive
- to stand, to hold, to remain, to continue (e.g. hold firm, stand strong, stand together, stand on one's feet)reflexive
- to stick to (e.g. stick to one's guns)reflexive
- to be maintained, to be retained, to be sustainedreflexive
- cherish(to have a deep appreciation of)
- hold up(to fulfil / fulfill or complete one's part of an agreement)
- maintain(to keep up)
- uphold(to keep erect)
- upkeep(to maintain (something) or keep it in good repair)
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