pausar
Spanish, verb/pauˈsaɾ/
pausar is spelled P-A-U-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 70,879th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pausar is a Spanish verb meaning “to pause” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Interrumpir una actividad o proceso”.
What does pausar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pause
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Interrumpir una actividad o proceso.
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 pausar
- pauso first-person present singular
- pausé first-person preterite singular
- pausado participle past
- pausando gerund
- pausada feminine participle past
- pausados masculine participle past
- pausadas feminine participle past
- pausas indicative informal present
- pausás indicative informal present
- pausa indicative present singular
- pausamos first-person indicative plural
- pausáis indicative plural present
- pausan indicative plural present
- pausaba first-person imperfect indicative
- pausabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pausábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pausabais imperfect indicative plural
- pausaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pausar?
- /pauˈsaɾ/
- [pau̯ˈsaɾ]
- [pawˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pausar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pausar in Spanish?
pausar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).