cagar
Spanish, verb/kaˈɡaɾ/
cagar is spelled C-A-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,633rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cagar is a Spanish verb meaning “to shit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Expulsar del cuerpo las heces de la digestión”.
What does cagar mean in English?
verb
- 1
vulgarto shit
Voy a cagarme
- 2
vulgarexclamation of rejection used to tell someone off
¡Anda a cagar!
- 3
colloquialvulgarto bust
- 4
colloquialvulgarto get busted
- 5
colloquialvulgarto ruin something; to screw
¡Me cagaste la computadora!
- 6
colloquialvulgarto fail
- 7
vulgarto cheat someone
- 8
MexicoSpaincolloquialvulgarto make a mistake
(transitive, colloquial) to bother
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Expulsar del cuerpo las heces de la digestión. 2. Ocasionar daño o menoscabar a alguno. 3. Malograr el funcionamiento o propósito de 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 cagar
- cago first-person present singular
- cagué first-person preterite singular
- cagado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- cagando gerund
- cagada feminine participle past
- cagados masculine participle past
- cagadas feminine participle past
- cagas indicative informal present
- cagás indicative informal present
- caga indicative present singular
- cagamos first-person indicative plural
- cagáis indicative plural present
- cagan indicative plural present
- cagaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cagabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cagábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cagabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cagar?
- /kaˈɡaɾ/
- [kaˈɣ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cagar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cagar in Spanish?
cagar appears 11 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).