matear
Spanish, verb/mateˈaɾ/
matear is spelled M-A-T-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish, the 176,328th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matear is a Spanish verb meaning “to drink maté” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tomar mate”.
What does matear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drink maté
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomar mate.
verb: 1. Ramificarse las matas de trigo y otros cereales. 2. Ojear, revisar las matas el perro de caza o el cazador.
verb: 1. Sembrar espaciadamente las matas.
verb: 1. Dar mate a alguno en el juego del ajedrez.
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 matear
- mateo first-person present singular
- mateé first-person preterite singular
- mateado participle past
- mateando gerund
- mateada feminine participle past
- mateados masculine participle past
- mateadas feminine participle past
- mateas indicative informal present
- mateás indicative informal present
- matea indicative present singular
- mateamos first-person indicative plural
- mateáis indicative plural present
- matean indicative plural present
- mateaba first-person imperfect indicative
- mateabas imperfect indicative second-person
- mateábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- mateabais imperfect indicative plural
- mateaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matear?
- /mateˈaɾ/
- [ma.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [mat̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is matear in Spanish?
matear appears about once in every 23 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).