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cursar

Spanish, verb/kuɾˈsaɾ/

cursar is a Spanish verb meaning “to attend (classes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Seguir un curso o una materia”.

What does cursar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to attend (classes)

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Seguir un curso o una materia. 2. Darle curso a un documento o una solicitud por su procedimiento particular.

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 cursar

  • curso first-person present singular
  • cursé first-person preterite singular
  • cursado participle past
  • cursando gerund
  • cursada feminine participle past
  • cursados masculine participle past
  • cursadas feminine participle past
  • cursas indicative informal present
  • cursás indicative informal present
  • cursa indicative present singular
  • cursamos first-person indicative plural
  • cursáis indicative plural present
  • cursan indicative plural present
  • cursaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • cursabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • cursábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • cursabais imperfect indicative plural
  • cursaban imperfect indicative plural

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

How do you pronounce cursar?

  • /kuɾˈsaɾ/
  • [kuɾˈsaɾ]

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

English words that translate to cursar

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

How common is cursar in Spanish?

cursar appears 4.1 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).