hesitar
Spanish, verb/esiˈtaɾ/
hesitar is spelled H-E-S-I-T-A-R (7 letters). Hesitar is a Spanish verb meaning “to hesitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dudar, vacilar”.
What does hesitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
rareto hesitate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dudar, vacilar.
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 hesitar
- hesito first-person present singular
- hesité first-person preterite singular
- hesitado participle past
- hesitando gerund
- hesitada feminine participle past
- hesitados masculine participle past
- hesitadas feminine participle past
- hesitas indicative informal present
- hesitás indicative informal present
- hesita indicative present singular
- hesitamos first-person indicative plural
- hesitáis indicative plural present
- hesitan indicative plural present
- hesitaba first-person imperfect indicative
- hesitabas imperfect indicative second-person
- hesitábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- hesitabais imperfect indicative plural
- hesitaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hesitar?
- /esiˈtaɾ/
- [e.siˈt̪aɾ]
- [esiˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hesitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.