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intuir

to sense

verb een-too-EER Rare
Mind & Emotions Mental States

Also means

to intuit

Usage Note

Intuir is an irregular -ir verb that belongs to the construir group — it inserts a y before endings that do not begin with i: intuyo, intuyes, intuye, intuyeron. It describes knowledge that arrives without conscious reasoning. The noun is intuición (intuition) and the adjective intuitivo (intuitive).

Examples

"Intuí que algo malo iba a pasar."

Natural Translation

I sensed that something bad was going to happen.

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