What does realizar in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word realizar in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use realizar in Spanish.

The word realizar in Spanish means make, fulfill yourself, realise, make, impossible to achieve, impossible to carry out, make a dream come true. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word realizar

make

verbo transitivo (ejecutar)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Los obreros realizaron un gran esfuerzo para terminar la obra a tiempo.
The workers made a big effort to finish the job on time.

fulfill yourself

verbo pronominal (persona: sentirse satisfecha) (US)

No me basta con ser ama de casa y madre, yo necesito realizarme en mi carrera.
It's not enough for me to be a homemaker and mother: I need to fulfill myself at work.

realise

verbo transitivo (hacer realidad) (UK)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
El hombre realizó su sueño de ir a la Luna. Si quieres realizar tus planes, tienes que trabajar arduamente.
Humans realised their dream of going to the Moon. If you want to realise your dreams, you have to work hard.

make

verbo transitivo (película: dirigir)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Ese director es famoso por realizar películas de época.
That director is famous for making period movies.

impossible to achieve, impossible to carry out

(algo irrealizable)

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")

make a dream come true

locución verbal (materializar un sueño)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Juan va a realizar un sueño varias veces postergado; va a dar la vuelta al mundo.
Juan is going to make a dream come true that's been put off several times; he is going to travel around the world.

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Spanish (español), also known as Castilla, is a language of the Iberian-Romance group of the Romance languages, and the 4th most common language in the world according to Some sources, while others list it as a 2nd or 3rd most common language. It is the mother tongue of about 352 million people, and is spoken by 417 million people when adding its speakers as a language. sub (estimated in 1999). Spanish and Portuguese have very similar grammar and vocabulary; The number of similar vocabulary of these two languages is up to 89%. Spanish is the primary language of 20 countries around the world. It is estimated that the total number of speakers of Spanish is between 470 and 500 million, making it the second most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.