mercar
Spanish, verb/meɾˈkaɾ/
mercar is spelled M-E-R-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish, the 178,154th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mercar is a Spanish verb meaning “to buy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Adquirir algo, especialmente un artículo, a cambio de dinero”.
What does mercar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to buy
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Adquirir algo, especialmente un artículo, a cambio de dinero.
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 mercar
- merco first-person present singular
- merqué first-person preterite singular
- mercado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- mercando gerund
- mercada feminine participle past
- mercados masculine participle past
- mercadas feminine participle past
- mercas indicative informal present
- mercás indicative informal present
- merca indicative present singular
- mercamos first-person indicative plural
- mercáis indicative plural present
- mercan indicative plural present
- mercaba first-person imperfect indicative
- mercabas imperfect indicative second-person
- mercábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- mercabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mercar?
- /meɾˈkaɾ/
- [meɾˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mercar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mercar in Spanish?
mercar appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).