dejar.
to leave (to place)
Meaning & usage
to leave (to place)
Dejé la cerveza arriba.
Deja las llaves sobre la mesa.
to leave, to keep (to allow to continue)
Me gusta dejar la luz encendida.
Supongo que podríamos dejar el restaurante abierto un poco más.
to leave (to cause, result in)
Su respuesta nos dejó convencidos.
Nos dejaste sorprendidos.
to let, allow
Deja que se explique.
Después de asear el área afectada, déjela secar.
to let go, put down (to release from one's grasp)
to drop off
Ayer dejé un paquete muy importante.
to leave, to abandon, to dump
Su madre la dejó cuando tenía tres años.
La invitó a una cita muy agradable, y de repente de la nada, él la dejó.
to give up, to lay off, to kick (colloquial)
Van a dejar la bebida.
Estoy pensando en dejar el chocolate para la Cuaresma.
to set, to put, to make (in certain phrases)
Quería dejar las cosas claras.
Usted tiene que dejar atrás el pasado.
to cut out (stop)
to leave off
to cease, stop
Hace dos años dejaron de fumar.
Mi pareja no deja de sorprenderme.
to be left
to let (oneself), to let oneself go (to cease to care about one's appearance)
to stop with something
to lend
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Spanish dexar, from Early Old Spanish lexar, from Latin laxāre, whence also laxar (a borrowed doublet). Also compare Portuguese and Galician deixar, Asturian dexar, Aragonese deixar, Catalan deixar, Occitan daissar, laissar, Sicilian dassari and both French laisser and délaisser. Early Old Spanish generally has l-, forms appearing with d- towards 1200. The change of the initial l- to d- in many (especially Iberian) Romance languages has been explained in various ways: most likely, it is due to the influence of the preposition de, often used in constructions with this verb, or from an influence of, or contraction of, Late Latin dēlaxāre (also attested in Old Spanish as delexar), due to rapid pronunciation (as is common in quasi-auxiliary verbs). Less likely explanations include influence from the verb dar (“to give”), or derivation from Latin dēsinere, the latter proving difficult on phonetic grounds. Compare English lease (sense 5), lax, and laxative.
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