phrase · #489
to stop doing
Example: Dejó de fumar el año pasado.
He stopped smoking last year.
Spanish → English
dejar de
dejar de is Spanish for to stop doing.
What dejar de means
How common is it?
dejar de is ranked #489 of the 500 most common Spanish words. It sits in the second half of the list: still everyday vocabulary, but you will meet it less often than the first two hundred.
Nearby on the frequency list
Words with a similar frequency to dejar de — learning them together is more efficient than learning them alphabetically.
- el sueño — dream; sleepiness
- la costumbre — habit, custom
- recoger — to pick up
- acabar — to finish, to end up
- tratar — to try; to treat
- permitir — to allow
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Compiled and checked by the Flipkado team · Last updated 2026-08-22