personificar
Spanish, verb/peɾsonifiˈkaɾ/
personificar is spelled P-E-R-S-O-N-I-F-I-C-A-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 83,712th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Personificar is a Spanish verb meaning “to personify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Atribuir propiedades humanas a un animal o a algo inanimado”.
What does personificar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to personify
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Atribuir propiedades humanas a un animal o a algo inanimado. 2. Adjudicar, asociar o representar un acontecimiento, sistema, ideología, punto de vista, etc. a través de una persona o personaje. 3. Representar a personas determinadas en los discursos, mensajes o escritos.
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 personificar
- personifico first-person present singular
- personifiqué first-person preterite singular
- personificado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- personificando gerund
- personificada feminine participle past
- personificados masculine participle past
- personificadas feminine participle past
- personificas indicative informal present
- personificás indicative informal present
- personifica indicative present singular
- personificamos first-person indicative plural
- personificáis indicative plural present
- personifican indicative plural present
- personificaba first-person imperfect indicative
- personificabas imperfect indicative second-person
- personificábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- personificabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce personificar?
- /peɾsonifiˈkaɾ/
- [peɾ.so.ni.fiˈkaɾ]
- [peɾsonifiˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to personificar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is personificar in Spanish?
personificar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).