arrestar
Spanish, verb/aresˈtaɾ/
arrestar is spelled A-R-R-E-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 15,797th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrestar is a Spanish verb meaning “to arrest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner a alguien preso o privarlo de su libertad”.
What does arrestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to arrest
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner a alguien preso o privarlo de su libertad.
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 arrestar
- arresto first-person present singular
- arresté first-person preterite singular
- arrestado participle past
- arrestando gerund
- arrestada feminine participle past
- arrestados masculine participle past
- arrestadas feminine participle past
- arrestas indicative informal present
- arrestás indicative informal present
- arresta indicative present singular
- arrestamos first-person indicative plural
- arrestáis indicative plural present
- arrestan indicative plural present
- arrestaba first-person imperfect indicative
- arrestabas imperfect indicative second-person
- arrestábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- arrestabais imperfect indicative plural
- arrestaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrestar?
- /aresˈtaɾ/
- [a.resˈt̪aɾ]
- [aresˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrestar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrestar in Spanish?
arrestar appears 3.4 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).