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afanado

Spanish, verb/afaˈnado/

afanado is spelled A-F-A-N-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish, the 94,980th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afanado is a Spanish verb meaning “past participle of afanar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Participio de afanar”.

What does afanado mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of afanar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Con afán.

verb: 1. Participio de afanar.

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 afanado

  • afanada feminine
  • afanados masculine plural
  • afanadas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce afanado?

  • /afaˈnado/
  • [a.faˈna.ð̞o]
  • [afaˈnað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to afanado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is afanado in Spanish?

afanado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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