Today’s Spanish word of the day is “importar”.
It’s a verb that usually means “to matter” or “to be important”, and can be used to express ideas such as caring or minding about something. It can also be used to mean “to import” when referring to things like trade and commerce.
It comes from the Latin word importare, meaning “to bring in”. This root also gave us English words such as “import”, “important” and “importance”.
Example sentences
No me importa lo que digan.
I don’t care what they say. (Literally “It doesn’t matter to me what they say”).
¿Te importa cerrar la puerta?
Would you mind closing the door? (Literally “Does it matter to you to close the door?”).
La empresa importa productos de China.
The company imports products from China.
Lo que importa es que estás a salvo.
What matters is that you’re safe.
En el gran esquema del universo, nuestros problemas importan muy poco.
In the grand scheme of the universe, our problems matter very little.
