This week’s Spanish word of the week is intención.
la intención NOUN (plural intenciones) intention; meaning
Intención in its most general sense means intention:
Es un libro repleto de buenas intenciones. It’s a book full of good intentions.
It’s widely used in the phrase tener intención de hacer algo, meaning to intend to do something or to mean to do something:
Después de su gira tenía intención de descansar. After her tour she intended to rest.
No tenía intención de ofenderte. I didn’t mean to offend you.
The phrase segunda intención means ulterior motive, as in:
No lo dijo con segundas intenciones. There was no ulterior motive in what he said.
Come back next week for another insight into Spanish vocabulary!
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