fijar
Spanish, verb/fiˈxaɾ/
fijar is spelled F-I-J-A-R (5 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,770th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fijar is a Spanish verb meaning “to fix, fasten, set, establish, determine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner una cosa de tal forma que no se mueva”.
What does fijar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fix, fasten, set, establish, determine
- 2
to determine, ascertain
- 3
to pin
tweet fijado
- 4
to notice
No me había fijado.
- 5
To cheat on (a test)
Me fijé en él.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner una cosa de tal forma que no se mueva. 2. Hacer que algo se vuelva estable, que no varíe. 3. Establecer algo como definitivo. 4. Dirigir en un sentido o dirección, con gran atención, el pensamiento, ideas o la mirada.
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 fijar
- fijo first-person present singular
- fijé first-person preterite singular
- fijado participle past
- fijando gerund
- fijada feminine participle past
- fijados masculine participle past
- fijadas feminine participle past
- fijas indicative informal present
- fijás indicative informal present
- fija indicative present singular
- fijamos first-person indicative plural
- fijáis indicative plural present
- fijan indicative plural present
- fijaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fijabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fijábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fijabais imperfect indicative plural
- fijaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fijar?
- /fiˈxaɾ/
- [fiˈxaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fijar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fijar in Spanish?
fijar appears 7.6 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).