levar
See also: lëvar and łevar
Galician
Alternative forms
- lovar
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese levar, from Latin levāre, present active infinitive of levō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈβaɾ/
Verb
levar (first-person singular present levo, first-person singular preterite levei, past participle levado)
- to take, to carry, to transport
- to wear (have equipped on one's body)
- to take (require)
- to take away
- (figurative) to lead, to push
- (arithmetic) to carry
- to spend an amount of time
- Levo seis anos nas Filipinas.
- I've been in the Philippines for six years.
- (reflexive) to get along with
Conjugation
Conjugation of levar
| singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| Infinitive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| impersonal | levar | |||||
| personal | levar | levares | levar | levarmos | levardes | levaren |
| Gerund | ||||||
| levando | ||||||
| Past participle | singular | plural | ||||
| masculine | levado | levados | ||||
| feminine | levada | levadas | ||||
| Indicative | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| present | levo | levas | leva | levamos | levades | levan |
| imperfect | levaba | levabas | levaba | levabamos | levabades | levaban |
| preterite | levei | levaches | levou | levamos | levastes | levaron |
| pluperfect | levara | levaras | levara | levaramos | levarades | levaran |
| future | levarei | levarás | levará | levaremos | levaredes | levarán |
| conditional | levaría | levarías | levaría | levariamos | levariades | levarían |
| Subjunctive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| present | leve | leves | leve | levemos | levedes | leven |
| preterite | levase | levases | levase | levásemos | levásedes | levasen |
| future | levar | levares | levar | levarmos | levardes | levaren |
| Imperative | – | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
| affirmative | – | leva | leve | levemos | levade | leven |
| negative | – | leves | leve | levemos | levedes | leven |
Synonyms
- (take): transportar
- (lead): conducir, empuxar
- (get along): leirar
Derived terms
- levada
References
- “levar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “levar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “levar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “levar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto levi (“to lift”), from Italian levare (“to lift”), French lever (“to lift”), ultimately from Latin levō.
Verb
levar (present tense levas, past tense levis, future tense levos, imperative levez, conditional levus)
- to lift (up), raise, heft
Conjugation
Conjugation of levar
 | present | past | future | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | levar | levir | levor | ||||
| tense | levas | levis | levos | ||||
| conditional | levus | ||||||
| imperative | levez | ||||||
| adjective active participle | levanta | levinta | levonta | ||||
| adverbial active participle | levante | levinte | levonte | ||||
| nominal active participle | singular | levanto | levinto | levonto | |||
| plural | levanti | levinti | levonti | ||||
| adjective passive participle | levata | levita | levota | ||||
| adverbial passive participle | levate | levite | levote | ||||
| nominal passive participle | singular | levato | levito | levoto | |||
| plural | levati | leviti | levoti | ||||
Interlingua
Etymology
From Italian levare (“to lift”), Spanish levantar (“to lift”), French lever (“to lift”).
Verb
levar
- to raise, lift
levar se
- (reflexive) to get up
Conjugation
Conjugation of levar
| infinitive | levar | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| participle | present | perfect | |
| levante | levate | ||
| active | simple | perfect | |
| present | leva | ha levate | |
| past | levava | habeva levate | |
| future | levara | habera levate | |
| conditional | levarea | haberea levate | |
| imperative | leva | ||
| passive | simple | perfect | |
| present | es levate | ha essite levate | |
| past | esseva levate | habeva essite levate | |
| future | essera levate | habera essite levate | |
| conditional | esserea levate | haberea essite levate | |
| imperative | sia levate | ||
Italian
Verb
levar (apocopated)
- Apocopic form of levare
Anagrams
- larve, verla
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin levō.
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Verb
levar
- to remove, to take off, to take away
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin levāre, present active infinitive of levō (“I lift”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.ˈβaɾ/
Verb
levar
- to take (to carry to a particular destination)
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 26 (facsimile):
- e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar
- and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul, and took it very quickly without delay
- e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar
- Synonym: carregar
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Descendants
- Fala: leval
- Galician: levar
- Portuguese: levar
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese levar, from Latin levāre.
Related to Spanish llevar, Italian levare, English leaven and French lever.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /leˈva(ʁ)/ [leˈva(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /leˈva(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /leˈva(ʁ)/ [leˈva(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /leˈva(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /lɨˈvaɾ/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /lɛˈva(h)/
- (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /liˈva(ɹ)/
- Hyphenation: le‧var
Verb
levar (first-person singular present levo, first-person singular preterite levei, past participle levado)
- (transitive) to take (to move something to a destination)
- Quem leva a mala?
- Who carries the suitcase?
- Levei a comida à minha irmã.
- I took the food to my sister.
- Synonym: transportar
- (transitive) to take away (to remove someone or something from the current location)
- Levem esse idiota!
- Take this idiot away!
- Synonyms: remover, tirar
- (transitive) to take out (to get food from an eatery to be eaten elsewhere)
- É para levar?
- Is it to go?
- (transitive) to accompany; to take (to go with somebody somewhere)
- Eu te levarei lá.
- I’ll take you there.
- Synonym: acompanhar
- (figurative, transitive) to take to; to bring to (to provide with or introduce to)
- Os romanos levariam a civilização para a Europa.
- Romans then took civilisation to Europe.
- Synonym: trazer
- (transitive) to take (to remove something from its rightful place or owner)
- O governo levará suas terras se não pagarem os impostos.
- The government will take your lands if you don’t pay the taxes.
- Synonyms: tirar, tomar
- (transitive) to sweep away; to blow away (to destructively move something away)
- Tornados levaram o telhado da nossa casa.
- Tornadoes have swept the roof of our house away.
- Synonym: arrancar
- (transitive) to steal; to take (to illegally take an object from its owner)
- Quando entraram na casa viram que alguém tinha levado a televisão.
- When they entered the house they saw that someone had taken the television.
- Synonym: roubar
- (euphemistic, transitive) to take; to kill (to cause someone to die)
- A infecção levou meu pai.
- The infection took my father.
- Synonym: matar
- (transitive) to take (to be the object of an interaction, especially a violent one)
- Ele levara uma flechada no joelho.
- He had taken an arrow to the knee.
- Synonyms: tomar, receber
- (informal, intransitive) to get it (to be punished or beaten up)
- Fique quieto senão vai levar.
- Be quiet or you will get it.
- (transitive) to take (to require a given amount of time)
- Quanto tempo leva?
- How long does it take?
- (transitive) to contain; to take (to have as an ingredient)
- Este pastel leva mel.
- This pastry takes honey.
- Synonym: conter
- (transitive) to take (to have capacity for)
- Algum desses baldes leva sete litros?
- Can any of these buckets take seven litres?
- (transitive) to carry (to have in one’s immediate possession)
- Os refugiados levavam apenas as roupas que vestiam.
- The refugees were carrying only the clothes they wore.
- Synonyms: ter, carregar
- (of a path, transitive with a) to lead to (to have as its destination)
- Todas estradas levam a Roma.
- Every road leads to Rome.
- (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking a) to lead to (to produce or tend to produce a given result)
- A fome os havia levado ao desespero.
- Hunger had led them to despair.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with por) to let oneself be overwhelmed by an emotion or force
- Levou-se pelo ódio e acabou matando várias pessoas.
- She was taken over by hatred and ended up killing many people.
- (transitive) to take (to face consequences for)
- Levaremos a culpa por esse ataque.
- We will take the blame for this attack.
Conjugation
Conjugation of levar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | levar | |||||
| Personal | levar | levares | levar | levarmos | levardes | levarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| levando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | levado | levados | ||||
| Feminine | levada | levadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | levo | levas | leva | levamos | levais | levam |
| Imperfect | levava | levavas | levava | levávamos | leváveis | levavam |
| Preterite | levei | levaste | levou | levamos1, levámos2 | levastes | levaram |
| Pluperfect | levara | levaras | levara | leváramos | leváreis | levaram |
| Future | levarei | levarás | levará | levaremos | levareis | levarão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| levaria | levarias | levaria | levaríamos | levaríeis | levariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | leve | leves | leve | levemos | leveis | levem |
| Imperfect | levasse | levasses | levasse | levássemos | levásseis | levassem |
| Future | levar | levares | levar | levarmos | levardes | levarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | leva | leve | levemos | levai | levem | |
| Negative (não) | não leves | não leve | não levemos | não leveis | não levem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:levar.
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin levāre. Doublet of llevar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈbaɾ/ [leˈβ̞aɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: le‧var
Verb
levar (first-person singular present levo, first-person singular preterite levé, past participle levado)
- (nautical) to raise anchor
- (obsolete) to put up
- (obsolete) Synonym of llevar
- (obsolete) Synonym of quitar
- (obsolete, of a star) to be born
Conjugation
Conjugation of levar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | levar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | levando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | levado | levada | |||||
| plural | levados | levadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | levo | levastú levásvos | leva | levamos | leváis | levan | |
| imperfect | levaba | levabas | levaba | levábamos | levabais | levaban | |
| preterite | levé | levaste | levó | levamos | levasteis | levaron | |
| future | levaré | levarás | levará | levaremos | levaréis | levarán | |
| conditional | levaría | levarías | levaría | levaríamos | levaríais | levarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | leve | levestú levésvos2 | leve | levemos | levéis | leven | |
| imperfect (ra) | levara | levaras | levara | leváramos | levarais | levaran | |
| imperfect (se) | levase | levases | levase | levásemos | levaseis | levasen | |
| future1 | levare | levares | levare | leváremos | levareis | levaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | levatú levávos | leve | levemos | levad | leven | ||
| negative | no leves | no leve | no levemos | no levéis | no leven | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of levar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive levar | |||||||
| dative | levarme | levarte | levarle, levarse | levarnos | levaros | levarles, levarse | |
| accusative | levarme | levarte | levarlo, levarla, levarse | levarnos | levaros | levarlos, levarlas, levarse | |
| with gerund levando | |||||||
| dative | levándome | levándote | levándole, levándose | levándonos | levándoos | levándoles, levándose | |
| accusative | levándome | levándote | levándolo, levándola, levándose | levándonos | levándoos | levándolos, levándolas, levándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative leva | |||||||
| dative | lévame | lévate | lévale | lévanos | not used | lévales | |
| accusative | lévame | lévate | lévalo, lévala | lévanos | not used | lévalos, lévalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative levá | |||||||
| dative | levame | levate | levale | levanos | not used | levales | |
| accusative | levame | levate | levalo, levala | levanos | not used | levalos, levalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative leve | |||||||
| dative | léveme | not used | lévele, lévese | lévenos | not used | léveles | |
| accusative | léveme | not used | lévelo, lévela, lévese | lévenos | not used | lévelos, lévelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative levemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | levémoste | levémosle | levémonos | levémoos | levémosles | |
| accusative | not used | levémoste | levémoslo, levémosla | levémonos | levémoos | levémoslos, levémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative levad | |||||||
| dative | levadme | not used | levadle | levadnos | levaos | levadles | |
| accusative | levadme | not used | levadlo, levadla | levadnos | levaos | levadlos, levadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative leven | |||||||
| dative | lévenme | not used | lévenle | lévennos | not used | lévenles, lévense | |
| accusative | lévenme | not used | lévenlo, lévenla | lévennos | not used | lévenlos, lévenlas, lévense | |
Further reading
- “levar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Noun
levar
- indefinite plural of lev.
Anagrams
- alver, velar