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aumentar

to increase

verb ow-men-TAHR Common

Also means

to rise

Usage Note

Aumentar can be transitive (aumentar los precios, 'to raise prices') or intransitive (los precios aumentaron, 'prices rose'). It is the everyday formal word for growth or increase; the more colloquial subir often replaces it for prices or quantities in speech. Aumentar de peso means 'to gain weight'.

Examples

"Las temperaturas aumentaron esta semana."

Natural Translation

Temperatures rose this week.

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