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tema

Spanish, noun

tema is spelled T-E-M-A (4 letters) and appears 251 times per million words in written Spanish, the 327th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tema is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “theme; plot (of a book, film or other media)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of temar. With an accent, temá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of temar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Asunto del que trata un discurso o escrito”.

What does tema mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetheme; plot (of a book, film or other media)

    Me gusta la serie porque el tema es complicado.

  2. 2

    masculinetopic; matter; subject

    el tema es que…

  3. 3

    masculinetheme; topic

  4. 4

    masculinesong, track

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

  3. 3

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  4. 4

    third-person singular imperative

verb

as temá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of temar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Asunto del que trata un discurso o escrito. 2. Cada uno de los asuntos principales de los que trata un libro o programa de estudio. 3. Cada una de las inflexiones que presenta la raíz de un vocablo. 4. Información ya conocida de la que parte un enunciado y que constituye la premisa de la exposición.

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 tema

  • temas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to tema

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tema in Spanish?

tema appears 251 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).

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