Usage Note
Hospitalizar means to admit someone to hospital for treatment. It is almost always used in the passive or reflexive: fue hospitalizado ('he was hospitalised'), tuvo que hospitalizarse ('he had to be admitted to hospital'). The noun is hospitalización. Note the -izar infinitive, giving forms like hospitalizo, hospitalizas.
Examples
"Tuvieron que hospitalizarla de urgencia."
Natural Translation
They had to hospitalise her as an emergency.
Literal Translation
They-had to hospitalise-her of emergency.
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