arruinar
Spanish, verb/arwiˈnaɾ/
arruinar is a Spanish verb meaning “to ruin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Causar destrucción y ruina”.
What does arruinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ruin
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causar destrucción y ruina. 2. Causar un desastre económico a personas, empresas o países. 3. Causarle un daño muy grande a algo material o inmaterial. 4. Dicho de una persona, causarle un grave daño moral.
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 arruinar
- arruino first-person present singular
- arruiné first-person preterite singular
- arruinado participle past
- arruinando gerund
- arruinada feminine participle past
- arruinados masculine participle past
- arruinadas feminine participle past
- arruinas indicative informal present
- arruinás indicative informal present
- arruina indicative present singular
- arruinamos first-person indicative plural
- arruináis indicative plural present
- arruinan indicative plural present
- arruinaba first-person imperfect indicative
- arruinabas imperfect indicative second-person
- arruinábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- arruinabais imperfect indicative plural
- arruinaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arruinar?
- /arwiˈnaɾ/
- [a.rwiˈnaɾ]
- [arwiˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arruinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arruinar in Spanish?
arruinar appears 5.6 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).