machar
Spanish, verb/maˈt͡ʃaɾ/
machar is spelled M-A-C-H-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 160,355th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Machar is a Spanish verb meaning “to grind, to pound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Golpear algo, reduciéndolo a fragmentos”.
What does machar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grind, to pound
- 2
(Latin America) to get drunk
- 3
to match
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Golpear algo, reduciéndolo a fragmentos.
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 machar
- macho first-person present singular
- maché first-person preterite singular
- machado participle past
- machando gerund
- machada feminine participle past
- machados masculine participle past
- machadas feminine participle past
- machas indicative informal present
- machás indicative informal present
- macha indicative present singular
- machamos first-person indicative plural
- macháis indicative plural present
- machan indicative plural present
- machaba first-person imperfect indicative
- machabas imperfect indicative second-person
- machábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- machabais imperfect indicative plural
- machaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce machar?
- /maˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- [maˈt͡ʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is machar in Spanish?
machar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).