117: Pensar
LearnCraft Spanish
Timothy Moser
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How do you say “think” in Spanish? Is it Pensar or Creer? Let’s discuss these two verbs so that we can properly translate “think” from English into Spanish.
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| 0:00.0 | We have to think in this. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish. |
| 0:14.9 | Let's learn the verb, |
| 0:16.7 | which means to think, |
| 0:19.5 | specifically when you're emphasizing what you're thinking about |
| 0:22.6 | or the action of thinking. Here's a simple example. Wait, I have to think. |
| 0:32.3 | When you talk about what you're thinking about, Penzar actually usually takes the preposition en. It's kind of like saying you're thinking on something. So here's an example. We think about this sometimes. |
| 1:02.5 | But also remember that you use the verb creer instead, where in some cases we'd use think in English. |
| 1:08.0 | For example, you're going to think it's the same person. |
| 1:15.1 | In this case, we use creer because when we say think, what we mean is believe. You're going to |
| 1:27.0 | believe it's the same person. |
| 1:29.9 | Let's do a mini-quiz to practice choosing between |
| 1:33.4 | pensar and creer. For the purposes of this quiz, we're only going to use unconjugated forms, |
| 1:40.8 | such as penzar, pensado, and pensando, as wellar, pensado, and |
| 1:44.1 | pensando, |
| 1:45.8 | as well as |
| 1:46.9 | pensamos for we think. |
| 1:51.6 | We have to think about this. |
| 1:58.1 | We |
| 1:59.0 | have to think |
| 1:59.8 | in this. |
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