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intentar in English:

1. try try


I try.
These jeans feel too tight. May I try on another size?
I can't remember her address no matter how much I try.
Try not to spend so much time complaining about things you can't change.
Looks delicious. Think I'll try some.
To improve your fluency, you should try speaking with native speakers as often as you can.
Cats are like girls. If they talk to you it's great, but if you try to talk to them, it doesn't go so well.
A brewery we finance has made a new sweet sake and brought some to us asking us to try it.
The reason for your failure is that you did not try hard enough.
I want to try my best for as long as I am physically able to.
Your dream of becoming a baseball player will come true if you try hard.
If you give it a try, you will find this game very exciting.
I like to feel sad. I know that most people try to avoid any kind of sad feeling. But I think that is wrong.
You must think it's impossible, but could you at least give it a try?
No matter how much you try to convince people that chocolate is vanilla, it'll still be chocolate, even though you may manage to convince yourself and a few others that it's vanilla.

English word "intentar"(try) occurs in sets:

500 most important Spanish verbs 26 - 50
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2. intend intend


I intend to go there.
It should be noted that Dole did not intend to change the configuration of the communication protocol.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I don't intend to flatly reject suicide, but I really wish parents would not make their children join in with them.
Although we may intend to judge a person on the basis of his or her personal qualities, they are not visible at first sight.
Brian is mad because Chris obviously does not intend to return the money.
Evidence that Harrison did not intend this work to be a parody can be seen in his letter to Mrs. Evans.
I intend to leave tomorrow, so I'd like to have an early morning call.
writeen or spoken agreement intended to be enforceable by law
What do you intend to do? (Co zamierzasz zrobić?) May I ask how long you intend to stay here? (Czy mogę spytać jak długo zamierzacie tu zostać?
I didn't intend her to hear the conversation. They intend to go to Croatia next year.
I intended it as a surprise so I didn’t say anything.
We finished later than we had intended.
Words often have several different meanings and we can tell which meaning is intended only by seeing how the word is used.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

English word "intentar"(intend) occurs in sets:

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3. to attempt to attempt



English word "intentar"(to attempt) occurs in sets:

500 most important Spanish verbs 226 - 250
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