How to pronounce “penser”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (intransitive) to think, reflect, concentrate one's mind on something [late 10th century in Passion, ed. D'Arco Silvio Avalle, 55]
• (intransitive) to think, imagine, believe [late 10th century in Passion, 339]
• (originally with a que sentence) to be of the opinion that, believe [1155 in Wace, Brut, ed. I. Arnold, 263]
• (intransitive) to be absorbed by a worry or depressing thoughts [ca. 1160 in Éneas, ed. J.-J. Salverda de Grave, 2221]
• (intransitive) to conceive a project [c. 1160 in Éneas, 1692]
• (with de + object) to evoke the image or remembrance of someone in one's mind [ca. 1160 in Éneas, 1223]
• (with à + object) to attach one's thinking to someone, especially lovingly [ca. 1165 in Troie, 17621 ds T.-L.]
• (with infinitive) to believe being or doing something [ca. 1165 in Troie, 29997 ds T.-L.]
• (with mal or bien + de + object) to think well or badly, to have a high or low opinion of someone [c. 1170 in Beroul, Tristan, ed. E. Muret, 110]
• (with de + infinitive) to try or prepare to do something [1160–74 in Wace, Rou, ed. A. J. Holden, III, 10814]
• (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) to reflect on something [late 11th century in Roland, ed. J. Bédier, 355]
• (with à + object) to bear, keep something in mind, to consider something [c. 1200 in Poème moral, 161a]
• (with infinitive) to intend to do, aim at doing something [ca. 1200 in Hist. Joseph, 299 ds T.-L.]
• (transitive) to have something in one's mind (c. 1220 in Barlaam et Josaphat, ed. C. Appel, 5623)
• (with à + infinitive) to intend to do, aim to do something [1306 in Joinville, ed. N. L. Corbett, § 612]
• (with mal, obsolete) to intend to do something bad [15th century in Isopet III de Paris, ed. J. Bastin, vol. 2, p. 401]
• (with à + object) to take care of [from 1636, in Monet]
• (with bien, in politics, religion, moral) to have opinions in accordance with the agreed principles [1823, in Courier]
• (with adverb or adverbial expression) to have a certain intellectual tendency, preference or property

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Similar Sounds

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