Borrowed fromLatinsustentāre.
sustentar (first-person singular presentsustento,first-person singular preteritesustentí,past participlesustentat);root stress:(Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- (transitive) tosustain(to provide for or nourish)
- (transitive) tosustain(to keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support)
Learned borrowing fromLatinsustentāre.
sustentar (first-person singular presentsustento,first-person singular preteritesustentei,past participlesustentado)
- (transitive) tosustain
- (transitive) tosupport,underpin
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
- “sustentar”, iniDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital,2008–2025
- “sustentar”, inDicionário inFormal (in Portuguese),2006–2025
- “sustentar” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “sustentar”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025
- “sustentar”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
- “sustentar”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025
Borrowed fromLatinsustentāre.
- IPA(key): /sustenˈtaɾ/[sus.t̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- Rhymes:-aɾ
- Syllabification:sus‧ten‧tar
sustentar (first-person singular presentsustento,first-person singular preteritesustenté,past participlesustentado)
- (transitive) tosustain,support,underpin(physically)
- Synonym:sostener
- (transitive) tosustain,support,hold(i.e. provide resources)
- (transitive, figuratively) tosupport,underpin,uphold
- (reflexive) to besupported, beunderpinned, besustained
2017 May 25, -, “El sagrado derecho de decir que no”, inEl Nacional[1]:un profesor como ese podría echar por tierra “los principios” sobre los cualesse sustenta el resentimiento encumbrado.- a teacher like that could overthrow "the principles" on which high resentmentis based.
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayanvoseo prefers thetú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms ofsustentar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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| with infinitivesustentar | dative | sustentarme | sustentarte | sustentarle,sustentarse | sustentarnos | sustentaros | sustentarles,sustentarse |
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| accusative | sustentarme | sustentarte | sustentarlo,sustentarla,sustentarse | sustentarnos | sustentaros | sustentarlos,sustentarlas,sustentarse |
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| with gerundsustentando | dative | sustentándome | sustentándote | sustentándole,sustentándose | sustentándonos | sustentándoos | sustentándoles,sustentándose |
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| accusative | sustentándome | sustentándote | sustentándolo,sustentándola,sustentándose | sustentándonos | sustentándoos | sustentándolos,sustentándolas,sustentándose |
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| with informal second-person singulartú imperativesustenta | dative | susténtame | susténtate | susténtale | susténtanos | not used | susténtales |
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| accusative | susténtame | susténtate | susténtalo,susténtala | susténtanos | not used | susténtalos,susténtalas |
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| with informal second-person singularvos imperativesustentá | dative | sustentame | sustentate | sustentale | sustentanos | not used | sustentales |
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| accusative | sustentame | sustentate | sustentalo,sustentala | sustentanos | not used | sustentalos,sustentalas |
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| with formal second-person singular imperativesustente | dative | susténteme | not used | susténtele,susténtese | susténtenos | not used | susténteles |
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| accusative | susténteme | not used | susténtelo,susténtela,susténtese | susténtenos | not used | susténtelos,susténtelas |
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| with first-person plural imperativesustentemos | dative | not used | sustentémoste | sustentémosle | sustentémonos | sustentémoos | sustentémosles |
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| accusative | not used | sustentémoste | sustentémoslo,sustentémosla | sustentémonos | sustentémoos | sustentémoslos,sustentémoslas |
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| with informal second-person plural imperativesustentad | dative | sustentadme | not used | sustentadle | sustentadnos | sustentaos | sustentadles |
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| accusative | sustentadme | not used | sustentadlo,sustentadla | sustentadnos | sustentaos | sustentadlos,sustentadlas |
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| with formal second-person plural imperativesustenten | dative | susténtenme | not used | susténtenle | susténtennos | not used | susténtenles,susténtense |
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| accusative | susténtenme | not used | susténtenlo,susténtenla | susténtennos | not used | susténtenlos,susténtenlas,susténtense |
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