cavar
Spanish, verb/kaˈbaɾ/
cavar is a Spanish verb meaning “to excavate, dig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Retirar la tierra para hacer un hoyo o una excavación”.
What does cavar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to excavate, dig
- 2
to penetrate into
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Retirar la tierra para hacer un hoyo o una excavación. 2. Remover la tierra.
verb: 1. Ir al fondo de una materia.
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 cavar
- cavo first-person present singular
- cavé first-person preterite singular
- cavado participle past
- cavando gerund
- cavada feminine participle past
- cavados masculine participle past
- cavadas feminine participle past
- cavas indicative informal present
- cavás indicative informal present
- cava indicative present singular
- cavamos first-person indicative plural
- caváis indicative plural present
- cavan indicative plural present
- cavaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cavabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cavábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cavabais imperfect indicative plural
- cavaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cavar?
- /kaˈbaɾ/
- [kaˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cavar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cavar in Spanish?
cavar appears 1.4 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).