acortar
Spanish, verb/akoɾˈtaɾ/
acortar is spelled A-C-O-R-T-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 26,728th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acortar is a Spanish verb meaning “to shorten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer más corto. Disminuir en longitud, extensión, duración, tiempo o cantidad”.
What does acortar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shorten
- 2
to cut short, curtail
- 3
to shorten (to become shorter)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer más corto. Disminuir en longitud, extensión, duración, tiempo o cantidad. 2. En particular, hacer más corto (menos largo) un camino; encontrar una ruta que tome menos tiempo recorrer.
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 acortar
- acorto first-person present singular
- acorté first-person preterite singular
- acortado participle past
- acortando gerund
- acortada feminine participle past
- acortados masculine participle past
- acortadas feminine participle past
- acortas indicative informal present
- acortás indicative informal present
- acorta indicative present singular
- acortamos first-person indicative plural
- acortáis indicative plural present
- acortan indicative plural present
- acortaba first-person imperfect indicative
- acortabas imperfect indicative second-person
- acortábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- acortabais imperfect indicative plural
- acortaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acortar?
- /akoɾˈtaɾ/
- [a.koɾˈt̪aɾ]
- [akoɾˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acortar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acortar in Spanish?
acortar appears 1.5 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).