importar
Spanish, verb/impoɾˈtaɾ/
importar is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Importar is a Spanish verb meaning “to matter, to be important [with a ‘someone’] (often translated idiomatically with English care or mind, with subject and object reversed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Merecer atención y valoración por su entidad o significatividad”.
What does importar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to matter, to be important [with a ‘someone’] (often translated idiomatically with English care or mind, with subject and object reversed)
No me importa.
- 2
to care
- 3
to import
Importa el trigo.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Merecer atención y valoración por su entidad o significatividad.
verb: 1. Introducir mercancía procedente del extranjero en un país. 2. Acarrear como consecuencia o resultado.
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 importar
- importo first-person present singular
- importé first-person preterite singular
- importado participle past
- importando gerund
- importada feminine participle past
- importados masculine participle past
- importadas feminine participle past
- importas indicative informal present
- importás indicative informal present
- importa indicative present singular
- importamos first-person indicative plural
- importáis indicative plural present
- importan indicative plural present
- importaba first-person imperfect indicative
- importabas imperfect indicative second-person
- importábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- importabais imperfect indicative plural
- importaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce importar?
- /impoɾˈtaɾ/
- [ĩm.poɾˈt̪aɾ]
- [ĩmpoɾˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to importar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is importar in Spanish?
importar appears 26 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).