habitar
Spanish, verb/abiˈtaɾ/
habitar is a Spanish verb meaning “to inhabit, to live or dwell in / on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Morar o residir en un lugar”.
What does habitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inhabit, to live or dwell in / on
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Morar o residir en un lugar.
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 habitar
- habito first-person present singular
- habité first-person preterite singular
- habitado participle past
- habitando gerund
- habitada feminine participle past
- habitados masculine participle past
- habitadas feminine participle past
- habitas indicative informal present
- habitás indicative informal present
- habita indicative present singular
- habitamos first-person indicative plural
- habitáis indicative plural present
- habitan indicative plural present
- habitaba first-person imperfect indicative
- habitabas imperfect indicative second-person
- habitábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- habitabais imperfect indicative plural
- habitaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce habitar?
- /abiˈtaɾ/
- [a.β̞iˈt̪aɾ]
- [aβ̞iˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to habitar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is habitar in Spanish?
habitar appears 1.6 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).