colonizar
Spanish, verb/koloniˈθaɾ/
colonizar is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 36,450th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colonizar is a Spanish verb meaning “to colonize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does colonizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to colonize
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of colonizar
- colonizo first-person present singular
- colonicé first-person preterite singular
- colonizado participle past
- c-z alternation
- colonizando gerund
- colonizada feminine participle past
- colonizados masculine participle past
- colonizadas feminine participle past
- colonizas indicative informal present
- colonizás indicative informal present
- coloniza indicative present singular
- colonizamos first-person indicative plural
- colonizáis indicative plural present
- colonizan indicative plural present
- colonizaba first-person imperfect indicative
- colonizabas imperfect indicative second-person
- colonizábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- colonizabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colonizar?
- /koloniˈθaɾ/
- [ko.lo.niˈθaɾ]
- /koloniˈsaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to colonizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colonizar in Spanish?
colonizar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).