Spanish Word of the Day: aguantar

Today’s word is used so much in the Spanish speaking word that I probably need two posts to cover all its forms and expressions. But today part one of the word aguantar.

As you can see it’s a verb. Seeing it for the first time, it probably doesn’t say you anything. One of its meanings (and the meaning I want to talk about today) is that of “to endure” or “to bear”. In English we have many, MANY expressions to say we can’t stand something anymore, and we use many, MANY words to say that. In Spanish, there’s one really easy and at the same time important word to form all these expressions: aguantar.

So, without further due, I’ll list some of my favorite expressions with the word aguantar. If you hace additions for it; please share them. They’ll probably end up in part two .

Sentences

¡Ya no aguanto más!
I can’t take any more!

No los aguanto.
I can’t stand them.

No sabes aguantar una broma.
You can’t take a joke.

Aguanto bien el calor.
I can take the heat.

¿Puedes aguantar hasta que lleguemos?
Can you hang on until we arrive?

*Sentences taken from “Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary”.