impresionar
Spanish, verb/impɾesjoˈnaɾ/
impresionar is spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-I-O-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 21,247th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impresionar is a Spanish verb meaning “to impress; to make an impression on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dejar fija una imagen visual o acústica sobre una superficie para su reproducción posterior”.
What does impresionar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impress; to make an impression on
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dejar fija una imagen visual o acústica sobre una superficie para su reproducción posterior. 2. Producir una emoción, generalmente inesperada, con un efecto duradero en la memoria de alguien. 3. Dejar fija o viva una imagen, idea o sentimiento, generalmente con una dosis de emoción o sorpresa.
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 impresionar
- impresiono first-person present singular
- impresioné first-person preterite singular
- impresionado participle past
- impresionando gerund
- impresionada feminine participle past
- impresionados masculine participle past
- impresionadas feminine participle past
- impresionas indicative informal present
- impresionás indicative informal present
- impresiona indicative present singular
- impresionamos first-person indicative plural
- impresionáis indicative plural present
- impresionan indicative plural present
- impresionaba first-person imperfect indicative
- impresionabas imperfect indicative second-person
- impresionábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- impresionabais imperfect indicative plural
- impresionaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impresionar?
- /impɾesjoˈnaɾ/
- [ĩm.pɾe.sjoˈnaɾ]
- [ĩmpɾesjoˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to impresionar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impresionar in Spanish?
impresionar appears 2.2 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).