acercarse
Spanish, verb/aθeɾˈkaɾse/
acercarse is spelled A-C-E-R-C-A-R-S-E (9 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,155th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acercarse is a Spanish verb meaning “infinitive of acercar combined with se” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ponerse más cerca o menos lejos”.
What does acercarse mean in English?
verb
- 1
infinitive of acercar combined with se
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ponerse más cerca o menos lejos. 2. Ir a un lugar no muy distante de donde se está, o pasar a un lugar que queda en el camino hacia donde realmente se va. 3. Ir hacia una persona. 4. Aproximarse mucho o en exceso.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acercarse
- haberse acercado impersonal infinitive
- acercándose impersonal gerund
- habiéndose acercado impersonal gerund
- acercado impersonal participle
- me acerco first-person singular indicative
- te acercas second-person singular indicative
- te acercás second-person singular vos-form
- se acerca third-person singular indicative
- nos acercamos first-person plural indicative
- os acercáis second-person plural indicative
- se acercan third-person plural indicative
- me acercaba first-person singular indicative
- te acercabas second-person singular indicative
- se acercaba third-person singular indicative
- nos acercábamos first-person plural indicative
- os acercabais second-person plural indicative
- se acercaban third-person plural indicative
- me acerqué first-person singular indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acercarse?
- /aθeɾˈkaɾse/
- [a.θeɾˈkaɾ.se]
- /aseɾˈkaɾse/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acercarse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acercarse in Spanish?
acercarse appears 12 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).