imaginaban in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for imaginaban in the Spanish»English Dictionary

I.imaginar VB trans

1. imaginar (suponer, figurarse):

imaginar

to imagine

imagino que seguirás con la misma empresa

I suppose o imagine o expect you're still with the same company

no puede usted imaginar cuánto se lo agradezco

you can't imagine how grateful I am to you

2. imaginar (formar una imagen mental de):

imaginar

to imagine

trata de imaginarlo pintado de blanco

try to imagine o picture it painted white

3. imaginar (idear):

imaginar plan/método/solución

to think up

imaginar plan/método/solución

to come up with

II.imaginarse VB vpr

1. imaginarse (suponer, figurarse):

imaginarse

to imagine

me imagino que no le habrán quedado ganas de repetir la experiencia

I don't imagine o suppose he feels like repeating the experience

no me imagino qué puede haber estado haciendo allí

I can't imagine o think what he could have been doing there

no te puedes imaginar lo mal que nos trató

you've no idea how badly she treated us

nunca me hubiera imaginado que nos iba a traicionar

I'd never have dreamed o imagined that he would betray us

¿sabes cuánto les costó? — me imagino que un dineral

do you know how much it cost them? — a fortune, I should imagine o think

¿quedó contento? — ¡imagínate!

was he happy? — what do you think!

¿habrá que moverlo de ahí? — me imagino que sí

do you think we'll have to move it — I suppose so o I imagine so o it looks like it

no sabes cómo me dolió — ¡me (lo) imagino!

it was unbelievably painful — I can imagine!

no sabes cómo me dolió — ¡me (lo) imagino!

it was unbelievably painful — I bet it was! inf

2. imaginarse (formar una imagen mental):

imaginarse

to imagine

¿te la imaginas con diez kilos menos?

can you imagine o picture her ten kilos lighter?

me lo imaginaba más alto

I imagined him to be taller

me lo imaginaba más alto

I thought he would be taller

imagínatelo sin barba

imagine how he'd look without a beard

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es difícil imaginar la crueldad con que los trataban

it's hard to imagine just how cruelly they were treated

no te puedes imaginar el discurso que me soltó inf

you should've heard the lecture he gave me o I got inf

¡dónde íbamos a imaginar que …!

how were we to imagine that …!

Translations for imaginaban in the English»Spanish Dictionary

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conceive of

imaginar

prefigure

imaginar(se)

visualize scene/situation

imaginar

he's the laziest person imaginable

es la persona más perezosa que se pueda imaginar

it's difficult to imagine anything worse

es difícil imaginar(se) algo peor

I can't imagine not having a car

no me puedo imaginar sin coche

you can't imagine how ill I was!

no te puedes imaginar lo enferma que estuve

conceive (imagine)

imaginar

imaginaban in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for imaginaban in the Spanish»English Dictionary

I.imaginar VB trans

imaginar

to imagine

imaginar fantasmas

to imagine things

II.imaginar VB refl imaginarse

1. imaginar (representarse):

imaginarse

to imagine oneself

me lo imagino

I can imagine [or picture] it

2. imaginar (figurarse):

imaginarse

to imagine

imaginarse

to suppose

Translations for imaginaban in the English»Spanish Dictionary

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imagine

imaginar

the children pretended that they were dinosaurs

los niños imaginaban que eran dinosaurios

suspect

imaginar

conceive

imaginar(se)

to guess that ...

imaginar que...

imaginaban Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

imaginar fantasmas

to imagine things

los niños imaginaban que eran dinosaurios

the children pretended that they were dinosaurs