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ordenar

Spanish, verb

ordenar is a Spanish verb meaning “to order, arrange” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, ordeñar is a different word: “to milk (to express milk from a mammal)”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Limpiar, alzar o recojer un lugar o espacio”.

What does ordenar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to order, arrange

  2. 2

    to order, command

  3. 3

    Latin-Americato order (request a product or service)

    Están listos para ordenar?

  4. 4

    to sort

  5. 5

    to sort through, to sort out, to collect

  6. 6

    to tidy up

  7. 7

    to ordain

  8. 8

    to enjoin

verb

as ordeñar
  1. 1

    to milk (to express milk from a mammal)

  2. 2

    colloquialto milk (get the most advantage out of someone or something)

  3. 3

    colloquialto milk (extract semen)

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Limpiar, alzar o recojer un lugar o espacio 2. Acomodar algo, por ejemplo, un grupo de personas 3. Pedir

verb: 1. Extraer leche de la ubre de la vaca al exprimirla. 2. Exprimir o explotar₁ algo para sacar su máximo provecho.

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 ordenar

  • ordeño first-person present singular
  • ordeñé first-person preterite singular
  • ordeñado participle past
  • ordeñando gerund
  • ordeñada feminine participle past
  • ordeñados masculine participle past
  • ordeñadas feminine participle past
  • ordeñas indicative informal present
  • ordeñás indicative informal present
  • ordeña indicative present singular
  • ordeñamos first-person indicative plural
  • ordeñáis indicative plural present
  • ordeñan indicative plural present
  • ordeñaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • ordeñabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • ordeñábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • ordeñabais imperfect indicative plural
  • ordeñaban imperfect indicative plural

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

English words that translate to ordenar

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

How common is ordenar in Spanish?

ordenar appears 10 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).