guardar
Spanish, verb/ɡwaɾˈdaɾ/
guardar is spelled G-U-A-R-D-A-R (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,909th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guardar is a Spanish verb meaning “to save (to store for future use)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Colocar algo en sitio seguro y apropiado para ello”.
What does guardar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to save (to store for future use)
- 2
to save (to write a file to disk or other storage medium)
guardar un archivo
- 3
to keep
Ha jurado guardarlo en secreto
- 4
to order
- 5
to clean
- 6
to put away
Guárdalo antes de que lo vean.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Colocar algo en sitio seguro y apropiado para ello 2. Ocuparse del cuidado y la defensa de algo 3. Preservar algo para su uso o disfrute futuro 4. Cumplir con una norma o costumbre
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 guardar
- guardo first-person present singular
- guardé first-person preterite singular
- guardado participle past
- guardando gerund
- guardada feminine participle past
- guardados masculine participle past
- guardadas feminine participle past
- guardas indicative informal present
- guardás indicative informal present
- guarda indicative present singular
- guardamos first-person indicative plural
- guardáis indicative plural present
- guardan indicative plural present
- guardaba first-person imperfect indicative
- guardabas imperfect indicative second-person
- guardábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- guardabais imperfect indicative plural
- guardaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guardar?
- /ɡwaɾˈdaɾ/
- [ɡwaɾˈð̞aɾ]
- [gwaɾˈð̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to guardar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guardar in Spanish?
guardar appears 20 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).