What does reprobar mean?

Question

For homework my teacher asked me to translate a bunch of words and reprobar was one of them but I have no idea what it means. Can anyone please help me. {MY teacher said we could use the internet if we didn't know the words,so I am not cheating}

Answer 1

In Mexico, reprobar is also to fail an exam:

--¿Reprobaste matemáticas?

--No, el maestro me reprobó.

Answer 2

Are you aware there is a dictionary on this site? Please click the dictionary tab and look the word up. If you don't understand something about the answer, then it would be appropriate to ask on the forum. This is like sitting at a table with someone, with a dictionary on the table, and you ask him to look up the word for you.

I already tried that but there are so many meanins i got confused what i meant was what was the way most people used it as. - Abhinair66, Sep 1, 2011

Answer 3

This one is not so difficult it would appear. R.A.E gives only one definition and Linguee .com shows the usage. click the links.

Seems the most common is to reprove or condemn.

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Answer 4

That's an interesting transition in Mexico. Presumably it started as "reprobar" = "resit" or "retry" (an exam) and then migrated to "need to resit". Any thoughts?

Answer 5

Thanks