suspender

English

Etymology

From suspend +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˈspɛndɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈspɛndə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)

Noun

suspender (plural suspenders)

1. Something or someone who suspends.
2. (US) An item of apparel consisting of a strap worn over the shoulder and used to hold up trousers.

   Synonym: (outside US) braces

3. (British) An item of apparel used to hold up a sock or (now especially) a stocking, such as a garter, or each of the fastening-straps attached to a corset or suspender belt.

Derived terms

• suspender belt

 

Translations

something or someone who suspends

• Dutch: ophouder (nl) m
• Finnish: kannatin (fi) (something); kannattelija (someone)
• Italian: spallina (it) f
• Russian: подве́ска (ru) f (podvéska) (pendant, suspension), подвя́зка (ru) f (podvjázka) (garter), по́мочи (ru) pl (pómoči) (leading strings)

an item used hold up trousers

• Afrikaans: kruisbande
• Albanian: tiranta f pl
• Arabic: حَمَّالَة بَنْطَال f (ḥammālat banṭāl)
• Belarusian: шле́йкі f pl (šljéjki), падця́жкі f pl (padcjážki)
• Bulgarian: тира́нти (bg) pl (tiránti)
• Catalan: elàstics m pl, tirants (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吊帶／吊带 (zh) (diàodài), 背帶／背带 (bēidài)

• Czech: kšandy f pl, šle (cs) f pl
• Danish: seler c pl
• Dutch: bretels (nl) f pl
• Esperanto: ŝelko (eo)
• Estonian: traksid pl, püksitraksid pl
• Faroese: seli m, selar m pl
• Finnish: henkselit (fi) pl, housunkannattimet pl, olkaimet pl
• French: bretelles (fr) f pl
• Galician: tirantes m pl
• Georgian: აჭიმი (ač̣imi)
• German: Hosenträger (de) m
• Greek: τιράντες (el) f pl (tirántes)
• Hungarian: nadrágtartó (hu)
• Icelandic: axlabönd (is) n pl
• Ido: breteli, bretel-paro
• Italian: bretelle (it) f
• Japanese: サスペンダー (sasupendā)
• Korean: 멜빵 (ko) (melppang)
• Latvian: bikšturi m pl
• Lithuanian: petnešos m pl
• Macedonian: трегери m pl (tregeri)
• Maori: perehi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мөрөвч (mn) (mörövč)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠥᠷᠦᠪᠴᠢ (mörübči)

• Norman: guélesses f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: buksesele (no) m

  Nynorsk: buksesele m

• Persian: بند شلوار (band-e šalvâr)
• Plautdietsch: Droagbaunt m
• Polish: szelka (pl) f
• Romanian: bretele f pl
• Russian: подтя́жки (ru) f pl (podtjážki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трегери m pl

  Roman: tregeri m pl

• Slovak: traky m pl
• Slovene: naramnice (sl) f pl
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: slě pl

• Spanish: tirante (es)
• Swedish: hängslen (sv) n pl
• Turkish: pantolon askısı
• Ukrainian: шле́йки f pl (šléjky), підтя́жки f pl (pidtjážky)
• Walloon: aburtale (wa) f, burtale (wa) f
• Welsh: bresys f pl
• Yiddish: שלייקעס pl (shleykes), שעלקעס pl (shelkes)

item used to hold up stocking

• Bulgarian: жартие́ри (bg) f pl (žartiéri)
• Czech: podvazek (cs) m
• Dutch: kousophouder (nl) m, jarretel (nl) c
• Finnish: sukkanauha (fi)
• French: jarretelle (fr) f
• German: Strumpfbandhalter m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strømpeholder m

• Russian: по́яс (ru) m (pójas)

Further reading

• Suspenders on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• speed runs, unpressed, resuspend, prudeness, speedruns

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

suspender

1. imperative of suspendere

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suspendere.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sus.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [sus.pẽˈde(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sus.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [sus.pẽˈde(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /sus.pẽˈde(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /suʃ.pẽˈde(ʁ)/ [suʃ.pẽˈde(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sus.pẽˈde(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suʃ.pẽˈdeɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suʃ.pẽˈdeɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /suʃ.pẽˈde.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: sus‧pen‧der

Verb

suspender (first-person singular present suspendo, first-person singular preterite suspendi, past participle suspendido, short past participle suspenso)

1. (transitive) to suspend; to hang

   Synonym: pendurar

2. (transitive) to suspend (to halt something temporarily)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of suspender (irregular short past participle) (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	suspender
Personal	suspender	suspenderes	suspender	suspendermos	suspenderdes	suspenderem
Gerund
	suspendendo
Short past participle
Masculine	suspenso1			suspensos1
Feminine	suspensa1			suspensas1
Long past participle
Masculine	suspendido2			suspendidos2
Feminine	suspendida2			suspendidas2
Indicative
Present	suspendo	suspendes	suspende	suspendemos	suspendeis	suspendem
Imperfect	suspendia	suspendias	suspendia	suspendíamos	suspendíeis	suspendiam
Preterite	suspendi	suspendeste	suspendeu	suspendemos	suspendestes	suspenderam
Pluperfect	suspendera	suspenderas	suspendera	suspendêramos	suspendêreis	suspenderam
Future	suspenderei	suspenderás	suspenderá	suspenderemos	suspendereis	suspenderão
Conditional	suspenderia	suspenderias	suspenderia	suspenderíamos	suspenderíeis	suspenderiam
Subjunctive
Present	suspenda	suspendas	suspenda	suspendamos	suspendais	suspendam
Imperfect	suspendesse	suspendesses	suspendesse	suspendêssemos	suspendêsseis	suspendessem
Future	suspender	suspenderes	suspender	suspendermos	suspenderdes	suspenderem
Imperative
Affirmative		suspende	suspenda	suspendamos	suspendei	suspendam
Negative (não)		não suspendas	não suspenda	não suspendamos	não suspendais	não suspendam

¹Usually used with auxiliary verbs ser and estar.
²Usually used with auxiliary verbs haver and ter.

Related terms

• suspensão
• suspenso

 

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suspendere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suspenˈdeɾ/ [sus.pẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: sus‧pen‧der

Verb

suspender (first-person singular present suspendo, first-person singular preterite suspendí, past participle suspendido)

1. to suspend
2. to flunk, to fail to pass an exam or class

Conjugation

    Conjugation of suspender (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			suspender
gerund			suspendiendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		suspendido		suspendida
		plural		suspendidos		suspendidas
		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	suspendo	suspendestú suspendésvos	suspende	suspendemos	suspendéis	suspenden
	imperfect	suspendía	suspendías	suspendía	suspendíamos	suspendíais	suspendían
	preterite	suspendí	suspendiste	suspendió	suspendimos	suspendisteis	suspendieron
	future	suspenderé	suspenderás	suspenderá	suspenderemos	suspenderéis	suspenderán
	conditional	suspendería	suspenderías	suspendería	suspenderíamos	suspenderíais	suspenderían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	suspenda	suspendastú suspendásvos2	suspenda	suspendamos	suspendáis	suspendan
	imperfect (ra)	suspendiera	suspendieras	suspendiera	suspendiéramos	suspendierais	suspendieran
	imperfect (se)	suspendiese	suspendieses	suspendiese	suspendiésemos	suspendieseis	suspendiesen
	future1	suspendiere	suspendieres	suspendiere	suspendiéremos	suspendiereis	suspendieren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		suspendetú suspendévos	suspenda	suspendamos	suspended	suspendan
	negative		no suspendas	no suspenda	no suspendamos	no suspendáis	no suspendan

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of suspender

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 suspender
	dative	suspenderme	suspenderte	suspenderle, suspenderse	suspendernos	suspenderos	suspenderles, suspenderse
	accusative	suspenderme	suspenderte	suspenderlo, suspenderla, suspenderse	suspendernos	suspenderos	suspenderlos, suspenderlas, suspenderse
with gerund suspendiendo
	dative	suspendiéndome	suspendiéndote	suspendiéndole, suspendiéndose	suspendiéndonos	suspendiéndoos	suspendiéndoles, suspendiéndose
	accusative	suspendiéndome	suspendiéndote	suspendiéndolo, suspendiéndola, suspendiéndose	suspendiéndonos	suspendiéndoos	suspendiéndolos, suspendiéndolas, suspendiéndose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative suspende
	dative	suspéndeme	suspéndete	suspéndele	suspéndenos	not used	suspéndeles
	accusative	suspéndeme	suspéndete	suspéndelo, suspéndela	suspéndenos	not used	suspéndelos, suspéndelas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative suspendé
	dative	suspendeme	suspendete	suspendele	suspendenos	not used	suspendeles
	accusative	suspendeme	suspendete	suspendelo, suspendela	suspendenos	not used	suspendelos, suspendelas
with formal second-person singular imperative suspenda
	dative	suspéndame	not used	suspéndale, suspéndase	suspéndanos	not used	suspéndales
	accusative	suspéndame	not used	suspéndalo, suspéndala, suspéndase	suspéndanos	not used	suspéndalos, suspéndalas
with first-person plural imperative suspendamos
	dative	not used	suspendámoste	suspendámosle	suspendámonos	suspendámoos	suspendámosles
	accusative	not used	suspendámoste	suspendámoslo, suspendámosla	suspendámonos	suspendámoos	suspendámoslos, suspendámoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative suspended
	dative	suspendedme	not used	suspendedle	suspendednos	suspendeos	suspendedles
	accusative	suspendedme	not used	suspendedlo, suspendedla	suspendednos	suspendeos	suspendedlos, suspendedlas
with formal second-person plural imperative suspendan
	dative	suspéndanme	not used	suspéndanle	suspéndannos	not used	suspéndanles, suspéndanse
	accusative	suspéndanme	not used	suspéndanlo, suspéndanla	suspéndannos	not used	suspéndanlos, suspéndanlas, suspéndanse

Related terms

• suspensión
• suspensor

 

See also

• colgar

Further reading

• “suspender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28