requisar
Spanish, verb/rekiˈsaɾ/
requisar is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-S-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Spanish, the 86,552nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Requisar is a Spanish verb meaning “to requisition, commandeer, seize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer requisición de caballos, vehículos, alimentos y otras cosas para el servicio militar”.
What does requisar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to requisition, commandeer, seize
- 2
to search
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer requisición de caballos, vehículos, alimentos y otras cosas para el servicio militar. 2. Dicho de la autoridad: expropiar bienes sin seguir los procedimientos usuales debido a causas de fuerza mayor, generalmente una guerra.
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 requisar
- requiso first-person present singular
- requisé first-person preterite singular
- requisado participle past
- requisando gerund
- requisada feminine participle past
- requisados masculine participle past
- requisadas feminine participle past
- requisas indicative informal present
- requisás indicative informal present
- requisa indicative present singular
- requisamos first-person indicative plural
- requisáis indicative plural present
- requisan indicative plural present
- requisaba first-person imperfect indicative
- requisabas imperfect indicative second-person
- requisábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- requisabais imperfect indicative plural
- requisaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce requisar?
- /rekiˈsaɾ/
- [re.kiˈsaɾ]
- [rekiˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to requisar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is requisar in Spanish?
requisar 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).