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na

Spanish, pronoun

na is spelled N-A (2 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,313th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Na is a Spanish pronoun meaning “pronunciation spelling of nada” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, ná is a different word: “apocopic form of nada”. On this page, na' is a different word: “alternative form of na”. With a tilde, ña is a different word: “clipping of señora”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Forma acortada de nada”.

What does na mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    pronunciation spelling of nada

pronoun

as ná
  1. 1

    informalapocopic form of nada

pronoun

as na'
  1. 1

    alternative form of na

noun

as ña
  1. 1

    colloquialfeminineclipping of señora

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante anticuada de doña (fórmula de tratamiento).

pronoun: 1. Forma acortada de nada.

adverb: 1. Forma acortada de nada.

interjection: 1. No.

interjection: 1. Por favor.

contraction: 1. Contracción de la preposición en y el artículo la.

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 na

  • na' alternative
  • ñas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is na in Spanish?

na appears 25 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).

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