dentar
Spanish, verb/denˈtaɾ/
dentar is a Spanish verb meaning “to teethe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Comenzar a echar o crecer los dientes un niño o un animal joven”.
What does dentar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to teethe
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Comenzar a echar o crecer los dientes un niño o un animal joven.
verb: 1. Dotar de dientes algo, como los de una herramienta (el serrucho, la sierra, las tijeras, etc).
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 dentar
- diento first-person present singular
- denté first-person preterite singular
- dentado participle past
- e-ie alternation
- dentando gerund
- dentada feminine participle past
- dentados masculine participle past
- dentadas feminine participle past
- dientas indicative informal present
- dentás indicative informal present
- dienta indicative present singular
- dentamos first-person indicative plural
- dentáis indicative plural present
- dientan indicative plural present
- dentaba first-person imperfect indicative
- dentabas imperfect indicative second-person
- dentábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- dentabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dentar?
- /denˈtaɾ/
- [d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dentar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.