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crear

Spanish, verb/kɾeˈaɾ/

crear is a Spanish verb meaning “to create” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Producir algo que antes no existía; generar la existencia de algo o de alguien”.

What does crear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to create

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Producir algo que antes no existía; generar la existencia de algo o de alguien. 2. Establecer, instituir o fundar algo que no existía. 3. Dar a alguien una dignidad o cargo que antes no tenía y que cambia su estatus de manera significativa.

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 crear

  • creo first-person present singular
  • creé first-person preterite singular
  • creado participle past
  • creando gerund
  • creada feminine participle past
  • creados masculine participle past
  • creadas feminine participle past
  • creas indicative informal present
  • creás indicative informal present
  • crea indicative present singular
  • creamos first-person indicative plural
  • creáis indicative plural present
  • crean indicative plural present
  • creaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • creabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • creábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • creabais imperfect indicative plural
  • creaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce crear?

  • /kɾeˈaɾ/
  • [kɾeˈaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to crear

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is crear in Spanish?

crear appears 107 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).