Alternative forms

• carregar

Etymology

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#CARGARCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#CARGAR carregar, cargar, from Late LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Late Latin#CARGARCategory:Galician terms derived from Late Latin#CARGAR carricāre (“load”, verb), from LatinCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#CARGAR carrus (“car, wagon”), from GaulishCategory:Galician terms derived from Gaulish#CARGAR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈɣaɾ/Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#CARGAR

Verb

cargar (first-person singular present cargo, first-person singular preterite carguei, past participle cargado)Category:Galician lemmas#CARGARCategory:Galician verbs#CARGARCategory:Galician verbs ending in -ar#CARGARCategory:Galician verbs with g-gu alternation#CARGARCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#CARGARCategory:Pages with entries#CARGARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#CARGAR

1. to carry
2. to load (put wares into a vehicle or an animal)
3. to burden
4. to lean
5. (computingCategory:gl:Computing#CARGAR) to load (load a software into the primary memory)

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “carregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cargar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cargar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cargar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cargar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cargar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cargar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

Inherited from Late LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Late Latin#CARGARCategory:Spanish terms derived from Late Latin#CARGAR carricāre, from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#CARGARCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#CARGAR carrus. Compare English charge and French charger. Doublet of carricarCategory:Spanish doublets#CARGAR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈɡaɾ/ [kaɾˈɣ̞aɾ]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CARGARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CARGAR

• Audio (Colombia):

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  Category:Spanish terms with audio pronunciation#CARGAR
• Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ#CARGARCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/2 syllables#CARGAR
• Syllabification: car‧gar

Verb

cargar (first-person singular present cargo, first-person singular preterite cargué, past participle cargado)Category:Spanish lemmas#CARGARCategory:Spanish verbs#CARGARCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ar#CARGARCategory:Spanish verbs with g-gu alternation#CARGARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CARGARCategory:Pages with entries#CARGARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#CARGAR

1. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR) to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage))

   Los estibadores se negaron a cargar el barco.

   The dock workers refused to load the ship.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

2. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR) to load (to fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition)

   Apreté el gatillo, pero no pasó nada. Me había olvidado de cargar el arma.

   I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

3. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR) to load (to insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc)

   Ahora que ha cargado la película [en la cámara], está lista para comenzar a filmar/grabar.

   Now that you've loaded the film [into the camera], it's ready to start shooting.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

4. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR, computingCategory:es:Computing#CARGAR) to load (to load a software into the primary memory)

   Al abrir un programa por primera vez, primero tiene que cargar.

   When opening a program for first time, it has to load first.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

   No me carga la página web.

   The website doesn't load for me.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

5. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR) to carry (to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting)

   La persona que carga el equipaje de los viajeros en estaciones de tren y aeropuertos se llama maletero.

   The person who carries travelers' luggage at train stations and airports is called a porter.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

6. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR) to charge (to replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet)

   Cargué la batería durante la noche.

   I charged the battery overnight.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

   No te olvides de cargar el taladro.

   Don't forget to charge the drill.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

   Cargo mi teléfono todas las noches.

   I charge my phone every night.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

7. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#CARGAR) to annoy, pester
8. (American footballCategory:es:Football (American)#CARGAR) to blitz
9. (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#CARGAR, colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#CARGAR, chiefly SpainCategory:Peninsular Spanish#CARGAR) to break, ruin

   Synonyms: romper, estropear, arruinar, fastidiar, joder

   No te cargues la fiesta.

   Don't ruin the party.

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CARGAR

10. (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#CARGAR, colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#CARGAR) to take down, kill

Further reading

• “cargar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Etymology

From Late LatinCategory:Venetan terms inherited from Late Latin#CARGARCategory:Venetan terms derived from Late Latin#CARGAR carricāre, from LatinCategory:Venetan terms derived from Latin#CARGAR carrus.

Verb

cargarCategory:Venetan lemmas#CARGARCategory:Venetan verbs#CARGARCategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#CARGARCategory:Pages with entries#CARGARCategory:Pages with 3 entries#CARGAR

1. (transitiveCategory:Venetan transitive verbs#CARGAR) to load
2. (transitiveCategory:Venetan transitive verbs#CARGAR) to charge (a battery etc.)