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objetivar

Spanish, verb/obxetiˈbaɾ/

objetivar is a Spanish verb meaning “to objectify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Imprimir características objetivas a un concepto, idea, sentimiento o similar”.

What does objetivar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to objectify

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Imprimir características objetivas a un concepto, idea, sentimiento o similar.

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 objetivar

  • objetivo first-person present singular
  • objetivé first-person preterite singular
  • objetivado participle past
  • objetivando gerund
  • objetivada feminine participle past
  • objetivados masculine participle past
  • objetivadas feminine participle past
  • objetivas indicative informal present
  • objetivás indicative informal present
  • objetiva indicative present singular
  • objetivamos first-person indicative plural
  • objetiváis indicative plural present
  • objetivan indicative plural present
  • objetivaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • objetivabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • objetivábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • objetivabais imperfect indicative plural
  • objetivaban imperfect indicative plural

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

How do you pronounce objetivar?

  • /obxetiˈbaɾ/
  • [oβ̞.xe.t̪iˈβ̞aɾ]
  • [oβ̞xet̪iˈβ̞aɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to objetivar

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

How common is objetivar in Spanish?

objetivar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).