mantener

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (transitive) to keep
  2. (transitive) to maintain, to support
  3. (transitive) to sustain, to preserve, to retain, to uphold
  4. (transitive) to maintain, continue, to keep up
  5. (transitive) to stay, to remain
  6. (reflexive) to maintain, to keep, to stay, to remain
  7. (reflexive) to stand, to hold, to remain, to continue (e.g. hold firm, stand strong, stand together, stand on one's feet)
  8. (reflexive) to stick to (e.g. stick to one's guns)
  9. (reflexive) to be maintained, to be retained, to be sustained

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
man‧te‧ner
Pronounced as (IPA)
/manteˈneɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Late Latin manūtenēre (“to support”), from Latin manū (“with the hand”) + teneō (“to hold”). Equivalent to mano + tener. Compare Galician and Portuguese manter, French maintenir, Italian mantenere.

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