- to maintain, keep
- to support, sustain (financially)
- to keep up, uphold (a conversation, relationship, promise)
Word type: verb
- to owe (money, a favour, etc.)
- must, should, have to (expressing obligation, followed by infinitive)
- deber de + infinitive: must (expressing probability or supposition)
- (noun) duty, obligation
- (noun, plural) deberes: homework
- to bring, carry (something towards the speaker)
- to cause, bring about (e.g. traer problemas – to cause problems)
- to wear, have on (e.g. trae puesto un abrigo – he’s wearing a coat)
- to feature, carry (e.g. el periódico trae una noticia – the newspaper features a story)
- to count (numbers, items)
- to tell, narrate (a story, joke, secret)
- to count on, rely on (with “con”)
- to be (temporary states, locations, conditions)
- to be (referring to how something tastes, looks, feels at a given moment)
- estar + gerund: to be doing something (progressive tense)
See also ser.
- to live, be alive
- to reside, dwell
- to experience, go through (a situation or event)
- to come
- to arrive
- to happen, occur
- to improvise
- to make do, put together improvised
- to have, possess
- to hold, keep
- to be (with certain states, e.g. tener frío = to be cold, tener hambre = to be hungry, tener miedo = to be afraid)
- to forget, to leave behind
- to overlook, to neglect