Polyglot Dictionary

intuir

/intuˈiɾ/

verb C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

present (yo)
intuyo
preterite (yo)
intuí
past participle
intuido

Meaning

  1. to sense

    • Intuyo que hay algo raro.

      I sense there's something odd.

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive

Similar words

presentir

presentir specifically means to have a premonition, to sense something bad will happen; intuir is more general intuition.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

pressentir

pressentir is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "to sense."

Practice

1 What does intuir mean?

2 Fill the gap: ___ que hay algo raro.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches intuir?

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