delegar
Spanish, verb/deleˈɡaɾ/
delegar is spelled D-E-L-E-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,508th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Delegar is a Spanish verb meaning “to delegate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Traspasar la responsabilidad de un cargo o una decisión de una persona a otra”.
What does delegar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to delegate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traspasar la responsabilidad de un cargo o una decisión de una persona a otra. 2. Asignar una tarea o trabajo a alguien para que lo realice.
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 delegar
- delego first-person present singular
- delegué first-person preterite singular
- delegado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- delegando gerund
- delegada feminine participle past
- delegados masculine participle past
- delegadas feminine participle past
- delegas indicative informal present
- delegás indicative informal present
- delega indicative present singular
- delegamos first-person indicative plural
- delegáis indicative plural present
- delegan indicative plural present
- delegaba first-person imperfect indicative
- delegabas imperfect indicative second-person
- delegábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- delegabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce delegar?
- /deleˈɡaɾ/
- [d̪e.leˈɣ̞aɾ]
- [d̪eleˈɣ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to delegar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is delegar in Spanish?
delegar appears 1.5 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).