tardar
Spanish, verb/taɾˈdaɾ/
tardar is spelled T-A-R-D-A-R (6 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 9,952nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tardar is a Spanish verb meaning “to take some amount of time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Ocupar más tiempo del acostumbrado en algo”.
What does tardar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take some amount of time
Near-synonyms: durar, llevar
- 2
to take too much time, to be late
Near-synonyms: demorarse, retrasarse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ocupar más tiempo del acostumbrado en algo.
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 tardar
- tardo first-person present singular
- tardé first-person preterite singular
- tardado participle past
- tardando gerund
- tardada feminine participle past
- tardados masculine participle past
- tardadas feminine participle past
- tardas indicative informal present
- tardás indicative informal present
- tarda indicative present singular
- tardamos first-person indicative plural
- tardáis indicative plural present
- tardan indicative plural present
- tardaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tardabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tardábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tardabais imperfect indicative plural
- tardaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tardar?
- /taɾˈdaɾ/
- [t̪aɾˈð̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tardar in Spanish?
tardar appears 6.5 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).