pastar
Spanish, verb/pasˈtaɾ/
pastar is spelled P-A-S-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 52,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pastar is a Spanish verb meaning “to graze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Llevar o conducir el ganado al pasto”.
What does pastar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to graze
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Llevar o conducir el ganado al pasto. 2. Comer el ganado la hierba del campo.
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 pastar
- pasto first-person present singular
- pasté first-person preterite singular
- pastado participle past
- pastando gerund
- pastada feminine participle past
- pastados masculine participle past
- pastadas feminine participle past
- pastas indicative informal present
- pastás indicative informal present
- pasta indicative present singular
- pastamos first-person indicative plural
- pastáis indicative plural present
- pastan indicative plural present
- pastaba first-person imperfect indicative
- pastabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pastábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pastabais imperfect indicative plural
- pastaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pastar?
- /pasˈtaɾ/
- [pasˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pastar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pastar in Spanish?
pastar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).