escuchar
Spanish, verb/eskuˈt͡ʃaɾ/
escuchar is spelled E-S-C-U-C-H-A-R (8 letters) and appears 81 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,084th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escuchar is a Spanish verb meaning “to listen to, to hear out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Prestar atención a lo que se oye”.
What does escuchar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to listen to, to hear out
¿Has escuchado su último disco?
- 2
to hear
Claudia trabajaba en su oficina cuando escuchó el staccato de chasquidos secos: pá-pá-pá.
- 3
Latin-Americato sound
Coordinate term: verse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prestar atención a lo que se oye. 2. Atender a un aviso, sugerencia o consejo.
verb: 1. Percibir un sonido con el oído.
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 escuchar
- escucho first-person present singular
- escuché first-person preterite singular
- escuchado participle past
- escuchando gerund
- escuchada feminine participle past
- escuchados masculine participle past
- escuchadas feminine participle past
- escuchas indicative informal present
- escuchás indicative informal present
- escucha indicative present singular
- escuchamos first-person indicative plural
- escucháis indicative plural present
- escuchan indicative plural present
- escuchaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escuchabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escuchábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escuchabais imperfect indicative plural
- escuchaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escuchar?
- /eskuˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- [es.kuˈt͡ʃaɾ]
- [eskuˈt͡ʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escuchar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escuchar in Spanish?
escuchar appears 81 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).