aficionar
Spanish, verb/afiθjoˈnaɾ/
aficionar is spelled A-F-I-C-I-O-N-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written Spanish, the 262,932nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aficionar is a Spanish verb meaning “to get someone interested in something; to get someone into something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que alguien sienta afición o gusto por alguien o algo”.
What does aficionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get someone interested in something; to get someone into something
- 2
to become interested in something
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que alguien sienta afición o gusto por alguien o algo.
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 aficionar
- aficiono first-person present singular
- aficioné first-person preterite singular
- aficionado participle past
- aficionando gerund
- aficionada feminine participle past
- aficionados masculine participle past
- aficionadas feminine participle past
- aficionas indicative informal present
- aficionás indicative informal present
- aficiona indicative present singular
- aficionamos first-person indicative plural
- aficionáis indicative plural present
- aficionan indicative plural present
- aficionaba first-person imperfect indicative
- aficionabas imperfect indicative second-person
- aficionábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- aficionabais imperfect indicative plural
- aficionaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aficionar?
- /afiθjoˈnaɾ/
- [a.fi.θjoˈnaɾ]
- /afisjoˈnaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aficionar in Spanish?
aficionar appears about once in every 56 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).