1. to maintain, keep
  2. to support, sustain (financially)
  3. to keep up, uphold (a conversation, relationship, promise)
  1. to owe (money, a favour, etc.)
  2. must, should, have to (expressing obligation, followed by infinitive)
  3. deber de + infinitive: must (expressing probability or supposition)
  4. (noun) duty, obligation
  5. (noun, plural) deberes: homework
  1. to bring, carry (something towards the speaker)
  2. to cause, bring about (e.g. traer problemas – to cause problems)
  3. to wear, have on (e.g. trae puesto un abrigo – he’s wearing a coat)
  4. to feature, carry (e.g. el periódico trae una noticia – the newspaper features a story)
  1. to count (numbers, items)
  2. to tell, narrate (a story, joke, secret)
  3. to count on, rely on (with “con”)
  1. to be (temporary states, locations, conditions)
  2. to be (referring to how something tastes, looks, feels at a given moment)
  3. estar + gerund: to be doing something (progressive tense)

See also serFrequency star.

  1. to live, be alive
  2. to reside, dwell
  3. to experience, go through (a situation or event)
  1. to come
  2. to arrive
  3. to happen, occur
  1. to improvise
  2. to make do, put together improvised
  1. to have, possess
  2. to hold, keep
  3. to be (with certain states, e.g. tener frío = to be cold, tener hambre = to be hungry, tener miedo = to be afraid)
  1. to forget, to leave behind
  2. to overlook, to neglect