cocinar
Spanish, verb/koθiˈnaɾ/
cocinar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cook” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Preparar los alimentos para consumirlos”.
What does cocinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cook
- 2
to cook
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Preparar los alimentos para consumirlos. 2. Preparar un alimento poniéndolo en agua hirviendo o vapor. 3. Terminar un trabajo cumpliendo satisfactoriamente los objetivos planteados. 4. Ponerse de acuerdo un grupo de personas a espaldas de los demás.
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 cocinar
- cocino first-person present singular
- cociné first-person preterite singular
- cocinado participle past
- cocinando gerund
- cocinada feminine participle past
- cocinados masculine participle past
- cocinadas feminine participle past
- cocinas indicative informal present
- cocinás indicative informal present
- cocina indicative present singular
- cocinamos first-person indicative plural
- cocináis indicative plural present
- cocinan indicative plural present
- cocinaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cocinabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cocinábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cocinabais imperfect indicative plural
- cocinaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cocinar?
- /koθiˈnaɾ/
- [ko.θiˈnaɾ]
- /kosiˈnaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cocinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cocinar in Spanish?
cocinar appears 16 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).