esperar
Meaning
- (catenative,transitive) to hope
- (catenative,transitive) to expect
- (intransitive,transitive) to wait, wait (for)
- (intransitive,reflexive) to wait, to hold on (reflexive for emphatic use)
- (impersonal,reflexive) to be expected
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧pe‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/espeˈɾaɾ/
Etymology
From Old Spanish esperar, inherited from Latin spērāre.
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