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nada

Spanish, pronoun

nada is spelled N-A-D-A (4 letters) and appears 1,047 times per million words in written Spanish, the 72nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nada is a Spanish pronoun meaning “nothing, zero, zilch, not...anything” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of nadar. With an accent, nadá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of nadar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ninguna cosa”.

What does nada mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    nothing, zero, zilch, not...anything

    No hay nada en la mesa.

noun

  1. 1

    femininenothingness, nothing

    Sin ti, soy una nada.

  2. 2

    femininenowhere, the void

    Salió de la nada.

adverb

  1. 1

    not at all

    No es nada fácil.

interjection

  1. 1

    colloquialellipsis of de nada

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

suffix

as -nada
  1. 1

    feminine-ada

verb

as nadá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of nadar

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

pronoun: 1. Ninguna cosa. 2. Cualquier cosa, en especial cuando es de poca importancia. 3. Cantidad mínima de algna cosa.

noun: 1. Fenómeno contrario al ser, ausencia total de las cosas. 2. Sentimiento de vacío.

adverb: 1. Adverbio usado para negar un verbo. Acompaña a no y sucede al verbo.

interjection: 1. Manera de rechazar o negar de plano alguna propuesta o argumento.

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 nada

  • ná alternative pronunciation-spelling
  • na' alternative pronunciation-spelling
  • na alternative pronunciation-spelling
  • naa alternative pronunciation-spelling

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

English words that translate to nada

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is nada in Spanish?

nada appears 1,047 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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