sombrear
Spanish, verb/sombɾeˈaɾ/
sombrear is a Spanish verb meaning “to shade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner efectos de sombra en una pintura o dibujo”.
What does sombrear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shade
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner efectos de sombra en una pintura o dibujo.
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 sombrear
- sombreo first-person present singular
- sombreé first-person preterite singular
- sombreado participle past
- sombreando gerund
- sombreada feminine participle past
- sombreados masculine participle past
- sombreadas feminine participle past
- sombreas indicative informal present
- sombreás indicative informal present
- sombrea indicative present singular
- sombreamos first-person indicative plural
- sombreáis indicative plural present
- sombrean indicative plural present
- sombreaba first-person imperfect indicative
- sombreabas imperfect indicative second-person
- sombreábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- sombreabais imperfect indicative plural
- sombreaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sombrear?
- /sombɾeˈaɾ/
- [sõm.bɾeˈaɾ]
- [sõmbɾeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sombrear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sombrear in Spanish?
sombrear appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).