discurrir

to flow

verb dees-koo-RREER Rare

Also means

to ponder

Usage Note

Discurrir has two distinct senses: physically, 'to flow or pass' (el río discurre por el valle — 'the river flows through the valley'), and mentally, 'to think, reflect, or devise' (discurrió una solución — 'she thought up a solution'). Context disambiguates. The mental sense is more literary and less common in everyday speech.

Examples

"El río discurre entre los campos."

Natural Translation

The river flows between the fields.

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