oír
Spanish, verb/oˈiɾ/
oír is spelled O-Í-R (3 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,840th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oír is a Spanish verb meaning “to hear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Percibir sonidos con el oído”.
What does oír mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hear
¡Oiga, por favor!
- 2
to hear (passively perceive a sound)
Oí ruidos extraños viniendo desde detrás de la puerta y tuve miedo.
- 3
to listen to (actively pay attention to a sound or a person speaking)
Cada mañana oigo el canto de los pájaros.
- 4
Latin-Americato sound
Coordinate term: verse
- 5
to heed; to listen to
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Percibir sonidos con el oído. 2. Escuchar las peticiones o advertencias de otra persona.
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 oír
- oigo first-person present singular
- oí first-person preterite singular
- oído participle past
- oyendo gerund
- oída feminine participle past
- oídos masculine participle past
- oídas feminine participle past
- oyes indicative informal present
- oís indicative informal present
- oye indicative present singular
- oímos first-person indicative plural
- oyen indicative plural present
- oía first-person imperfect indicative
- oías imperfect indicative second-person
- oíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- oíais imperfect indicative plural
- oían imperfect indicative plural
- oíste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce oír?
- /oˈiɾ/
- [oˈiɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oír
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oír in Spanish?
oír appears 21 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).