situar
Spanish, verb/siˈtwaɾ/
situar is spelled S-I-T-U-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 20,906th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Situar is a Spanish verb meaning “to situate, to place, to put, to position” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner en un lugar, ubicación o situación a alguien o a algo”.
What does situar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to situate, to place, to put, to position
- 2
to invest money
- 3
to locate (often on a map, chart, diagram or drawing of some sort)
- 4
to site
- 5
to be set (e.g. a novel or film)
- 6
to position oneself (physically in a location)
- 7
to be placed, to be located, to be situated
- 8
to reach (a certain level in quantity or percentage)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner en un lugar, ubicación o situación a alguien o a algo. 2. Destinar fondos o medios para financiar algo, especialmente un tipo de inversión o pago. 3. Indicar la situación o circunstancias de algo con el fin de comprenderlo mejor.
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 situar
- sitúo first-person present singular
- situé first-person preterite singular
- situado participle past
- u-ú alternation
- situando gerund
- situada feminine participle past
- situados masculine participle past
- situadas feminine participle past
- sitúas indicative informal present
- situás indicative informal present
- sitúa indicative present singular
- situamos first-person indicative plural
- situáis indicative plural present
- sitúan indicative plural present
- situaba first-person imperfect indicative
- situabas imperfect indicative second-person
- situábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- situabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce situar?
- /siˈtwaɾ/
- [siˈt̪waɾ]
- [sit̪uˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to situar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is situar in Spanish?
situar appears 2.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).