Skip to content

suspendir

to suspend

verb soos-pen-DEHR Rare

Origin: Latin suspendere (to hang up)

Also means

to fail (an exam)

Usage Note

Suspender has two very common uses: to suspend or cancel an event (suspender una reunión) and — especially in Spain — to fail a student or an exam (suspender el examen). In Latin America the second sense is more often expressed with reprobar.

Examples

"Suspendí el examen de matemáticas."

Natural Translation

I failed the maths exam.

Explore Spanish by topic