adjetivar
Spanish, verb/adxetiˈbaɾ/
adjetivar is spelled A-D-J-E-T-I-V-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish, the 191,875th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adjetivar is a Spanish verb meaning “to adjective (to make an adjective of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Convertir en adjetivo una palabra que originariamente no lo era”.
What does adjetivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adjective (to make an adjective of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Convertir en adjetivo una palabra que originariamente no lo era. 2. Calificar, juzgar, tachar de.
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 adjetivar
- adjetivo first-person present singular
- adjetivé first-person preterite singular
- adjetivado participle past
- adjetivando gerund
- adjetivada feminine participle past
- adjetivados masculine participle past
- adjetivadas feminine participle past
- adjetivas indicative informal present
- adjetivás indicative informal present
- adjetiva indicative present singular
- adjetivamos first-person indicative plural
- adjetiváis indicative plural present
- adjetivan indicative plural present
- adjetivaba first-person imperfect indicative
- adjetivabas imperfect indicative second-person
- adjetivábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- adjetivabais imperfect indicative plural
- adjetivaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adjetivar?
- /adxetiˈbaɾ/
- [að̞.xe.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
- [að̞xet̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adjetivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adjetivar in Spanish?
adjetivar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).