cambar
Spanish, verb/kamˈbaɾ/
cambar is spelled C-A-M-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Spanish, the 285,965th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cambar is a Spanish verb meaning “to crook, bend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que se curve, encorve o tuerza un material duro como la madera o el metal”.
What does cambar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to crook, bend
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que se curve, encorve o tuerza un material duro como la madera o el metal.
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 cambar
- cambo first-person present singular
- cambé first-person preterite singular
- cambado participle past
- cambando gerund
- cambada feminine participle past
- cambados masculine participle past
- cambadas feminine participle past
- cambas indicative informal present
- cambás indicative informal present
- camba indicative present singular
- cambamos first-person indicative plural
- cambáis indicative plural present
- camban indicative plural present
- cambaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cambabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cambábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cambabais imperfect indicative plural
- cambaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cambar?
- /kamˈbaɾ/
- [kãmˈbaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cambar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cambar in Spanish?
cambar appears about once in every 68 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).