aguentar

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === aguantar agüentar (pre-1990 spelling) agùentar (pre-reform spelling) === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian agguantare. Compare Spanish aguantar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧guen‧tar === Verb === aguentar (first-person singular present aguento, first-person singular preterite aguentei, past participle aguentado) (transitive, intransitive) to support (to keep from falling) (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) to bear, to put up with Synonym: suportar Não aguento mais! ― I can't stand it anymore! Ele não aguenta uma piada. ― He can't take a joke. (intransitive) to hold out; to hold on (pronominal) to hold; to hold up ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “aguentar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “aguentar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026