dudar
Spanish, verb/duˈdaɾ/
dudar is spelled D-U-D-A-R (5 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 7,670th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dudar is a Spanish verb meaning “to doubt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Estar indeciso entre dos o más opciones, no estar seguro de qué hacer”.
What does dudar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to doubt
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Estar indeciso entre dos o más opciones, no estar seguro de qué hacer. 2. No estar seguro de algo o alguien, no creer en algo o alguien.
verb: 1. No creer en lo que se dice o comenta. 2. Sentir temor de algo o alguien.
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 dudar
- dudo first-person present singular
- dudé first-person preterite singular
- dudado participle past
- dudando gerund
- dudada feminine participle past
- dudados masculine participle past
- dudadas feminine participle past
- dudas indicative informal present
- dudás indicative informal present
- duda indicative present singular
- dudamos first-person indicative plural
- dudáis indicative plural present
- dudan indicative plural present
- dudaba first-person imperfect indicative
- dudabas imperfect indicative second-person
- dudábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- dudabais imperfect indicative plural
- dudaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dudar?
- /duˈdaɾ/
- [d̪uˈð̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dudar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dudar in Spanish?
dudar appears 9.1 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).