resonar
Spanish, verb/resoˈnaɾ/
resonar is spelled R-E-S-O-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 54,740th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resonar is a Spanish verb meaning “to resonate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer sonido por repercusión”.
What does resonar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to resonate
- 2
to echo
- 3
to ring (usually one's ears)
- 4
to resound, ring
"Entonces dejen resonar la libertad desde las prodigiosas cumbres de Nueva Hampshire. Dejen resonar la libertad desde las grandes montañas de Nueva York." (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963, Yo tengo un sueño)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer sonido por repercusión. 2. Dicho de un acontecimiento ocurrido en el pasado: reaparecer en la conciencia de alguien, quien siente su repercusión en el presente. 3. Dicho de un sistema: ser excitado por una magnitud oscilante que presenta la frecuencia exacta a la cual se maximiza la potencia transmitida hacia la carga.
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 resonar
- resueno first-person present singular
- resoné first-person preterite singular
- resonado participle past
- o-ue alternation
- resonando gerund
- resonada feminine participle past
- resonados masculine participle past
- resonadas feminine participle past
- resuenas indicative informal present
- resonás indicative informal present
- resuena indicative present singular
- resonamos first-person indicative plural
- resonáis indicative plural present
- resuenan indicative plural present
- resonaba first-person imperfect indicative
- resonabas imperfect indicative second-person
- resonábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- resonabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resonar?
- /resoˈnaɾ/
- [re.soˈnaɾ]
- [resoˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to resonar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is resonar in Spanish?
resonar 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).