penser
Meaning
- (intransitive) to think, reflect, concentrate one's mind on something
- (intransitive) to think, imagine, believe
- to be of the opinion that, believe
- (intransitive) to be absorbed by a worry or depressing thoughts
- (intransitive) to conceive a project
- to evoke the image or remembrance of someone in one's mind
- to attach one's thinking to someone, especially lovingly
- (with-infinitive) to believe being or doing something
- to think well or badly, to have a high or low opinion of someone
- to try or prepare to do something
- (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) to reflect on something
- to bear, keep something in mind, to consider something
- (with-infinitive) to intend to do, aim at doing something
- (transitive) to have something in one's mind (c. 1220 in Barlaam et Josaphat, ed. C. Appel, 5623)
- to intend to do, aim to do something
- (obsolete) to intend to do something bad
- to take care of
- to have opinions in accordance with the agreed principles
- to have a certain intellectual tendency, preference or property
Concepts
speculate
Synonyms
être d’avis
se figurer
se rappeler
se représenter
Translations
denken
pensare
pensar
pensar
denken
düşünmek
pensar
σκέφτομαι
فكرFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɑ̃.se/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle French penser, from Old French penser, from Latin pēnsāre, whence also the doublet peser, as well as panser, originally an alternative spelling which acquired a special sense.
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