importar

Borrowed from Latin importāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

importar (first-person singular present importo, first-person singular preterite importí, past participle importat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to matter

   No m'importa.

   It's not important to me.

2. to import

   Antonym: exportar

• importació

• importància
• important

• “importar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007
• “importar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “importar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “importar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin importāre.

• IPA^(key): /impoɾˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: im‧por‧tar

importar (first-person singular present importo, first-person singular preterite importei, past participle importado)

1. (transitive) to import
2. (transitive) to amount
   • 1820, anonymous author, Diálogo entre Dominjos e Farruco:

     Eu ben sei que si lle preghuntases esto ó Capitán, pode mui ben que che digha que non se acorda canto levou, pero para quitar a duda podes faser esta conta. Vinte e un foron os quintos, dandolle a cada un seis reás por día, importa sento e vinte e seis, e si nas dés leghuas tardaron tres días ghastaron tresentos setenta e oito, e dandolle ó que os levou outro tanto, asende o total a setesentos sincuenta e seis reás; ¿e os qué faltan hasta tres mil e seisentos?

     I know for certain that if you ask this to the captain, quite probably he will say that he doesn't remember how much money he took, but to clear up any doubt you can do this count. There were twenty-one conscripts, giving six reals each one per day, this amounts to a hundred and twenty-six; and if ten leagues took them three days, then they expended three hundred and seventy-eight. Giving the same amount to the guide, the total rises to seven hundred and fifty-six reals; what about what's missing up to three thousand and six hundred?

3. (intransitive) to matter (be important)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “importar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “importar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “importar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English import, French importer, Italian importare, Spanish importar, from Latin importāre, not to be confused with the paronym importacar (“to import”).

importar (present tense importas, past tense importis, future tense importos, imperative importez, conditional importus)

1. (intransitive) to matter, be important (to good order)

   Ka ol reale importas?

   Does it really matter?

Conjugation of importar

		present		past		future
infinitive		importar		importir		importor
tense		importas		importis		importos
conditional		importus		—		—
imperative		importez		—		—
adjective active participle		importanta		importinta		importonta
adverbial active participle		importante		importinte		importonte
nominal active participle	singular	importanto		importinto		importonto
	plural	importanti		importinti		importonti
adjective passive participle		importata		importita		importota
adverbial passive participle		importate		importite		importote
nominal passive participle	singular	importato		importito		importoto
	plural	importati		importiti		importoti

• importo (“magnitude, consideration, consequence, weight, significance”)
• importanta (“important”)
• importanto (“important person”)
• importajo (“important thing”)

• importacar (“to import”)

Borrowed from Latin importāre.

• Hyphenation: im‧por‧tar

importar (first-person singular present importo, first-person singular preterite importei, past participle importado)

1. (transitive) to import
2. (intransitive) to matter (be important)

   Não importa. ― It does not matter.

3. (intransitive, pronominal) to mind, to care

   Synonym: preocupar-se

   Se não se importa. ― If you don't mind.

   Não me importo que você venha. ― I don't care whether you come.

4. (catenative, pronominal) to mind

   Importa-se de abrir a janela?

   Would you mind opening the window?

Borrowed from Latin importāre.

• IPA^(key): /impoɾˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: im‧por‧tar

importar (first-person singular present importo, first-person singular preterite importé, past participle importado)

1. to matter, to be important (often translated idiomatically with English care or mind, with subject and object reversed)

   No me importa.

   I don't care. / I don't mind. / It doesn't matter (to me). / It’s not important (to me).

   No importa.

   Never mind. / No matter.

   No me importa el dinero.

   I don’t care about money.

   ¿A mí qué me importa?

   What do I care?

   ¿Le importaría si cambiamos de asiento?

   Would you mind if we switch seats?

   • 2019 April 17, Sergio Morales Rodas, “Más de 100 mil familias y menores han sido detenidos en la frontera sur de EE. UU.”, in Prensa Libre‎:

     A los migrantes guatemaltecos poco les ha importado la retórica del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump y sus continuas advertencias de que no recibirá a solicitantes de asilo.

     Guatemalan migrants have cared little about the rhetoric of the United States president Donald Trump and his constant warnings that he will not receive asylum seekers.

2. (transitive) to import

   Antonym: exportar

• “importar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , December 10 2024