sobrellenar

Spanish

Etymology

From sobre- +‎ llenar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sobɾeʝeˈnaɾ/ [so.β̞ɾe.ʝeˈnaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /sobɾeʝeˈnaɾ/ [so.β̞ɾe.ʝeˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /sobɾeʎeˈnaɾ/ [so.β̞ɾe.ʎeˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sobɾeʃeˈnaɾ/ [so.β̞ɾe.ʃeˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sobɾeʒeˈnaɾ/ [so.β̞ɾe.ʒeˈnaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧bre‧lle‧nar

Verb

sobrellenar (first-person singular present sobrelleno, first-person singular preterite sobrellené, past participle sobrellenado)

1. to overfill

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sobrellenar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			sobrellenar
gerund			sobrellenando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sobrellenado		sobrellenada
		plural		sobrellenados		sobrellenadas
		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	sobrelleno	sobrellenastú sobrellenásvos	sobrellena	sobrellenamos	sobrellenáis	sobrellenan
	imperfect	sobrellenaba	sobrellenabas	sobrellenaba	sobrellenábamos	sobrellenabais	sobrellenaban
	preterite	sobrellené	sobrellenaste	sobrellenó	sobrellenamos	sobrellenasteis	sobrellenaron
	future	sobrellenaré	sobrellenarás	sobrellenará	sobrellenaremos	sobrellenaréis	sobrellenarán
	conditional	sobrellenaría	sobrellenarías	sobrellenaría	sobrellenaríamos	sobrellenaríais	sobrellenarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sobrellene	sobrellenestú sobrellenésvos2	sobrellene	sobrellenemos	sobrellenéis	sobrellenen
	imperfect (ra)	sobrellenara	sobrellenaras	sobrellenara	sobrellenáramos	sobrellenarais	sobrellenaran
	imperfect (se)	sobrellenase	sobrellenases	sobrellenase	sobrellenásemos	sobrellenaseis	sobrellenasen
	future1	sobrellenare	sobrellenares	sobrellenare	sobrellenáremos	sobrellenareis	sobrellenaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		sobrellenatú sobrellenávos	sobrellene	sobrellenemos	sobrellenad	sobrellenen
	negative		no sobrellenes	no sobrellene	no sobrellenemos	no sobrellenéis	no sobrellenen

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

Related terms

• llenar

Further reading

• “sobrellenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10