cortar
Spanish, verb/koɾˈtaɾ/
cortar is spelled C-O-R-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,473rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cortar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Separar un objeto en dos partes mediante un cuchillo u otro objeto cortante”.
What does cortar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cut
- 2
to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip
- 3
to chop, chop up, chop off
- 4
to slice, to slit
- 5
to mow
- 6
to slash, to hack
- 7
to carve, to engrave
- 8
to hang up, to terminate a telephone call
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Separar un objeto en dos partes mediante un cuchillo u otro objeto cortante. 2. Atravesar un fluido, sea aire, agua, etc. 3. Suavizar el sabor de un alimento. 4. Suavizar la pureza de una mezcla.
verb: 1. Ir por un atajo. 2. Recolectar miel de abejas. 3. Separar y unir el mazo antes de que empiece a repartir quien mezcló, como forma de constatar de que no se carteó.
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 cortar
- corto first-person present singular
- corté first-person preterite singular
- cortado participle past
- cortando gerund
- cortada feminine participle past
- cortados masculine participle past
- cortadas feminine participle past
- cortas indicative informal present
- cortás indicative informal present
- corta indicative present singular
- cortamos first-person indicative plural
- cortáis indicative plural present
- cortan indicative plural present
- cortaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cortabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cortábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cortabais imperfect indicative plural
- cortaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cortar?
- /koɾˈtaɾ/
- [koɾˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cortar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cortar in Spanish?
cortar appears 23 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).