cargar
Spanish, verb/kaɾˈɡaɾ/
cargar is spelled C-A-R-G-A-R (6 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,981st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cargar is a Spanish verb meaning “to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage))” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Juntar y disponer los objetos sobre una persona o animal para su transporte”.
What does cargar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage))
Los estibadores se negaron a cargar el barco.
- 2
to load (to fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition)
Apreté el gatillo, pero no pasó nada. Me había olvidado de cargar el arma.
- 3
to load (to insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc)
Ahora que ha cargado la película [en la cámara], está lista para comenzar a filmar/grabar.
- 4
to load (to load a software into the primary memory)
Al abrir un programa por primera vez, primero tiene que cargar.
- 5
to carry (to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting)
La persona que carga el equipaje de los viajeros en estaciones de tren y aeropuertos se llama maletero.
- 6
to charge (to replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet)
Cargué la batería durante la noche.
- 7
to annoy, pester
- 8
to blitz
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Juntar y disponer los objetos sobre una persona o animal para su transporte. 2. Ponerle la munición a un arma de fuego. 3. Usar la fuerza corporal para desequilibrar, estorbar o desplazar a un jugador rival. 4. Fastidiar, molestar a alguien.
verb: 1. Tener una sílaba mayor intensidad o mayor duración. 2. Embestir con ímpetu contra el enemigo o enemigos.
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 cargar
- cargo first-person present singular
- cargué first-person preterite singular
- cargado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- cargando gerund
- cargada feminine participle past
- cargados masculine participle past
- cargadas feminine participle past
- cargas indicative informal present
- cargás indicative informal present
- carga indicative present singular
- cargamos first-person indicative plural
- cargáis indicative plural present
- cargan indicative plural present
- cargaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cargabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cargábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cargabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cargar?
- /kaɾˈɡaɾ/
- [kaɾˈɣ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cargar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cargar in Spanish?
cargar appears 15 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).