Grammatical class

Noun

pensée

a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246)

Details

Syllables

pen-sée

Phonetics

pɑ̃.se

Grammatical class

Noun

Freq. (books)

541

Freq. (movies)

1751

Freq. (news)

3761

Sentences

La pensée est libre.

Thought is free.

A1

J'apprécie la pensée.

I appreciate the thought.

A1

C'est une belle pensée.

That's a nice thought.

A1

Tom a écarté cette pensée.

Tom dismissed this thought.

A1

C'est une vilaine pensée.

That's an ugly thought.

A2

C'est la pensée qui compte.

It's the thought that counts.

A2

Cet article va affecter ma pensée.

This article will affect my thinking.

B1

La pensée ne m'a jamais traversé l'esprit.

The thought never crossed my mind.

B1

Chaque enfant a son propre mode de pensée.

Each child has an individual way of thinking.

B1

Une pensée terrible m'est venue à l'esprit.

A fearful thought entered my mind.

B1

De toi à moi, sa pensée est superficielle.

Between you and me, he's a shallow thinker.

B2

Travestir une pensée (“disguise an idea, represent it under a different form”).

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C2