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ganas

Spanish, noun

ganas is spelled G-A-N-A-S (5 letters) and appears 85 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,035th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ganas is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “desire, wish, want” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of gana. With a tilde, gañas is a different word: “second-person singular present subjunctive of gañir”. With an accent, ganás is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present indicative of ganar”. With a tilde, gañás is a different word: “second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of gañir”.

What does ganas mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineplural of gana

  2. 2

    femininedesire, wish, want

    Tengo ganas de un helado.

  3. 3

    feminineenthusiasm

    Esto se debe hacer con ganas.

  4. 4

    femininelust (chiefly when preceded by compound verb traerle o tener)

verb

  1. 1

    second-person singular present indicative of ganar

verb

as gañas
  1. 1

    second-person singular present subjunctive of gañir

verb

as ganás
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo present indicative of ganar

verb

as gañás
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of gañir

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

English words that translate to ganas

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is ganas in Spanish?

ganas appears 85 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).

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