intentaba
B1Rank #2921I/he/she/it tried (imperfect form of intentar)
- Part of speech
- verb
- Frequency rank
- #2921 of 5,000
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"intentaba" in example sentences
"intentaba" appears in 18 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.
Por mucho que intentaba, no pudo abrir la puerta.
No matter how he tried, he could not open the door.
Cuando yo era joven intentaba leer tantos libros como pudiera.
When I was young, I tried to read as many books as I could.
Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.
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