fugar
Spanish, verb/fuˈɡaɾ/
fugar is spelled F-U-G-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 74,340th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fugar is a Spanish verb meaning “to escape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que una persona o animal tenga que correr, generalmente para escapar o huir. Poner en fuga”.
What does fugar mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto put to flight, to cause to flee
- 2
to escape
- 3
to flee
Se fugaron anoche.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que una persona o animal tenga que correr, generalmente para escapar o huir. Poner en fuga.
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 fugar
- fugo first-person present singular
- fugué first-person preterite singular
- fugado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- fugando gerund
- fugada feminine participle past
- fugados masculine participle past
- fugadas feminine participle past
- fugas indicative informal present
- fugás indicative informal present
- fuga indicative present singular
- fugamos first-person indicative plural
- fugáis indicative plural present
- fugan indicative plural present
- fugaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fugabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fugábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fugabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fugar?
- /fuˈɡaɾ/
- [fuˈɣ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fugar in Spanish?
fugar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).