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
feminineplural of gana
- 2
femininedesire, wish, want
Tengo ganas de un helado.
- 3
feminineenthusiasm
Esto se debe hacer con ganas.
- 4
femininelust (chiefly when preceded by compound verb traerle o tener)
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of ganar
verb
- 1
second-person singular present subjunctive of gañir
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo present indicative of ganar
verb
- 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).