I'm watching a Spanish language learning Youtube playlist and in the most recent lesson I watched, the instructor asks the student what she thinks the word "intentar" means in English. And somehow her first guess -- which was correct -- was that it means "to try". Somehow she got this by thinking about the word intencion. But I would have -- and did -- immediately guessed that it meant "to intend". And I still don't see the relationship between these words. How could someone guess that the Spanish word "intentar" means "to try" in English?
Foreign Language - How to guess that "intentar" in Spanish = "to try" in English?
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- 3+ months ago by yarp
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If you had studied Latin, even a little bit, you would already know a large part of the vocabulary for Spanish, French, Italian, and some English. But guessing does not always work right. For example "groseria" has nothing to do with groceries. Both the Spanish and English come from a Latin word meaning "to stretch toward". So her guess was merely a lucky guess.