tar
Spanish, verb
tar is spelled T-A-R (3 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,508th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tar is a Spanish verb meaning “Apheretic form of estar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, TAR is a different word: “initialism of tratamiento antirretroviral/terapia antirretroviral”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante subestándar de estar”.
What does tar mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialApheretic form of estar.
noun
- 1
masculineinitialism of tratamiento antirretroviral/terapia antirretroviral
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante subestándar de estar.
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 tar
- haber tado impersonal infinitive
- tando impersonal gerund
- habiendo tado impersonal gerund
- tado impersonal participle
- toy first-person singular indicative
- tas second-person singular indicative
- ta third-person singular indicative
- tamos first-person plural indicative
- tais second-person plural indicative
- tan third-person plural indicative
- taba first-person singular indicative
- tabas second-person singular indicative
- tábamos first-person plural indicative
- tabais second-person plural indicative
- taban third-person plural indicative
- tuve first-person singular indicative
- tuviste second-person singular indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tar in Spanish?
tar appears 1.5 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).