tronar
Spanish, verb/tɾoˈnaɾ/
tronar is spelled T-R-O-N-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 59,847th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tronar is a Spanish verb meaning “to thunder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Sonar truenos”.
What does tronar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thunder
- 2
colloquialto bust, ruin (person)
- 3
colloquialto fail (not pass an exam)
- 4
colloquialto crack (to make a cracking sound)
- 5
Mexicocolloquialto kill (someone)
- 6
colloquialto die
- 7
Mexicocolloquialto fail (a student) (to give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sonar truenos. 2. Realizar un sonido o ruido estruendoso. 3. Reprobar, suspender a un estudiante en un curso escolar.
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 tronar
- trueno first-person present singular
- troné first-person preterite singular
- tronado participle past
- o-ue alternation
- tronando gerund
- tronada feminine participle past
- tronados masculine participle past
- tronadas feminine participle past
- truenas indicative informal present
- tronás indicative informal present
- truena indicative present singular
- tronamos first-person indicative plural
- tronáis indicative plural present
- truenan indicative plural present
- tronaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tronabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tronábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tronabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tronar?
- /tɾoˈnaɾ/
- [t̪ɾoˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tronar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tronar in Spanish?
tronar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).