tajar
Spanish, verb/taˈxaɾ/
tajar is spelled T-A-J-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 153,784th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tajar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cut; to slice, to chop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Abrir un tajo o incisión en un cuerpo utilizando un instrumento cortante”.
What does tajar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cut; to slice, to chop
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Abrir un tajo o incisión en un cuerpo utilizando un instrumento cortante. 2. Tratándose de la pluma de ave para escribir, cortarla.
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 tajar
- tajo first-person present singular
- tajé first-person preterite singular
- tajado participle past
- tajando gerund
- tajada feminine participle past
- tajados masculine participle past
- tajadas feminine participle past
- tajas indicative informal present
- tajás indicative informal present
- taja indicative present singular
- tajamos first-person indicative plural
- tajáis indicative plural present
- tajan indicative plural present
- tajaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tajabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tajábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tajabais imperfect indicative plural
- tajaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tajar?
- /taˈxaɾ/
- [t̪aˈxaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tajar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tajar in Spanish?
tajar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).