afinar
Spanish, verb/afiˈnaɾ/
afinar is spelled A-F-I-N-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 35,389th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afinar is a Spanish verb meaning “to refine, to fine-tune” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner en tono los instrumentos musicales de manera que produzcan con exactitud los sonidos deseados”.
What does afinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to refine, to fine-tune
- 2
to tune (to modify a musical instrument)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner en tono los instrumentos musicales de manera que produzcan con exactitud los sonidos deseados. 2. Dar perfección, precisión, exactitud o punto deseable a algo. Hacerlo fino. 3. Hacer que alguien tenga buenas maneras y se comporte de manera refinada, cortés o acorde con las expectativas de un grupo o sociedad. 4. Hacer que el encuadernamiento de un libro sea parejo, de modo que su cubierta sea simétrica.
verb: 1. Entonar la voz para cantar con precisión las notas musicales.
verb: 1. Poner fin o término a 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 afinar
- afino first-person present singular
- afiné first-person preterite singular
- afinado participle past
- afinando gerund
- afinada feminine participle past
- afinados masculine participle past
- afinadas feminine participle past
- afinas indicative informal present
- afinás indicative informal present
- afina indicative present singular
- afinamos first-person indicative plural
- afináis indicative plural present
- afinan indicative plural present
- afinaba first-person imperfect indicative
- afinabas imperfect indicative second-person
- afinábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- afinabais imperfect indicative plural
- afinaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afinar?
- /afiˈnaɾ/
- [a.fiˈnaɾ]
- [afiˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to afinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afinar in Spanish?
afinar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).