penser
Meanings
Verb
1. to think, reflect, concentrate one's mind on something (intransitive)
2. to think, imagine, believe (intransitive)
3. to be of the opinion that, believe (originally with a que sentence)
4. to be absorbed by a worry or depressing thoughts (intransitive)
5. to conceive a project (intransitive)
6. to evoke the image or remembrance of someone in one's mind (with de + object)
7. to attach one's thinking to someone, especially lovingly (with à + object)
8. to believe being or doing something (with infinitive)
9. to think well or badly, to have a high or low opinion of someone (with mal or bien + de + object)
10. to try or prepare to do something (with de + infinitive)
11. to reflect on something (transitive, reflexive, obsolete)
12. to bear, keep something in mind, to consider something (with à + object)
13. to intend to do, aim at doing something (with infinitive)
14. to have something in one's mind (c. 1220 in Barlaam et Josaphat, ed. C. Appel, 5623) (transitive)
15. to intend to do, aim to do something (with à + infinitive)
16. to intend to do something bad (with mal, obsolete)
17. to take care of (with à + object)
18. to have opinions in accordance with the agreed principles (with bien, in politics, religion, moral)
19. to have a certain intellectual tendency, preference or property (with adverb or adverbial expression)
Examples7566
Que pensez-vous faire ?
What do you intend to do?
Je pense comme vous.
I agree with your view.
Je pensais aller vous voir.
I fancied paying you a visit.
Vous n'en êtes pas où vous pensez.
You are not where you think you are.
Il ne dit rien qu'il ne pense.
He doesn't say anything he doesn't believe.
À quoi pensez-vous ?
What are you thinking?