cansar
Spanish, verb/kanˈsaɾ/
cansar is a Spanish verb meaning “to tire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Producir fatiga o cansancio”.
What does cansar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tire
- 2
to get tired
Se me cansan los brazos.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Producir fatiga o cansancio. 2. Producir desagrado en una persona algo repetitivo o molesto, provocar el deseo de que se acabe pronto tal cosa. 3. Producir aburrimiento algo repetitivo, monótono o sin interés. 4. Hablando de las tierras cultivables, disminuir su producción por empobrecimiento de su contenido en nutrientes.
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 cansar
- canso first-person present singular
- cansé first-person preterite singular
- cansado participle past
- cansando gerund
- cansada feminine participle past
- cansados masculine participle past
- cansadas feminine participle past
- cansas indicative informal present
- cansás indicative informal present
- cansa indicative present singular
- cansamos first-person indicative plural
- cansáis indicative plural present
- cansan indicative plural present
- cansaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cansabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cansábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cansabais imperfect indicative plural
- cansaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cansar?
- /kanˈsaɾ/
- [kãnˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cansar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cansar in Spanish?
cansar appears 1.2 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).