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chocar

Spanish, verb/t͡ʃoˈkaɾ/

chocar is a Spanish verb meaning “to crash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Encontrarse con violencia dos o más cosas”.

What does chocar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to crash

  2. 2

    to bump (into), to collide (with)

  3. 3

    to shock, scandalize

  4. 4

    to crash into, to hit, to slam into, to collide with

  5. 5

    to annoy, to bother, to upset

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Encontrarse con violencia dos o más cosas. 2. Combatir, luchar. 3. Enfrentarse o indisponerse con alguien. 4. Causar algo malestar, extrañeza o enfado.

verb: 1. Hacer que algo choque o colisione. 2. Darse las manos en señal de saludo, felicitación, acuerdo, etc. 3. Juntar las copas los que brindan. 4. Tener dos eventos donde se va a participar un mismo horario.

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 chocar

  • choco first-person present singular
  • choqué first-person preterite singular
  • chocado participle past
  • c-qu alternation
  • chocando gerund
  • chocada feminine participle past
  • chocados masculine participle past
  • chocadas feminine participle past
  • chocas indicative informal present
  • chocás indicative informal present
  • choca indicative present singular
  • chocamos first-person indicative plural
  • chocáis indicative plural present
  • chocan indicative plural present
  • chocaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • chocabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • chocábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • chocabais imperfect indicative plural

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

How do you pronounce chocar?

  • /t͡ʃoˈkaɾ/
  • [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to chocar

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

How common is chocar in Spanish?

chocar appears 3.4 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).