How do you say, " what are you thinkng about" in spanish, using the verb pensar

Question

• is it okay to say que pienses con?
• or do you use sobre instead of con?

• Good question! (And one I don't know the answer to.) - Alicia-53 Nov 6, 2009
• Que piensas con is wrong and Sobre que piensas could be but is not very common. - 0068e2f4 Nov 6, 2009
• You could say ?En que piensas? What are you thinking? - 0068e2f4 Nov 6, 2009

Answer 1

¿En qué piensas? Estoy pensando en ti. Estás siempre en mis pensamientos.

Answer 2

¿En qué estás pensando?

• wouldn't it be "pensando" (gerund) rather than "pensado" (past participle)? - Izanoni1 Nov 6, 2009
• I'm sorry it was a typo. You are right. - 0068e2f4 Nov 6, 2009
• However, it's not a gerund, it's the present participle. It just seems like a gerund because their spellde/pronounced the same. - samdie Nov 6, 2009

Answer 3

What's wrong with just "Qué piensas?"

"¿En qué piensas?" means "What are you thinking about?" / "What's on your mind?"

"¿Qué piensas?" means "What do you think?" / "What's your opinion?"

Different expressions, different meanings.

• I see! Thank you. - jeezzle Nov 7, 2009

Answer 4

You could say, "¿En qué estás pensando?" or "¿En qué piensas?".

You could not say "¿Qué te piensas sobre?" because 1) You can never end a sentence with a preposition 2) "Pensarse" is "to wonder", not "to think" (although they are very similar ideas) 3) "Pensar" always goes with "en", not "sobre".

Answer 5

What's wrong with just "Qué piensas?" The people I work with say it all the time and they are from Mexico.

• Nothing, really. We just make an effort to teach grammatically correct spanish here. "Que' piensas?" is common-speak. - Stobber Nov 7, 2009

Answer 6

I believe its ¿Qué te piensas sobre? My teacher taught us that.

• Are you sure your teacher taught you that? - mountaingirl Nov 6, 2009
• Si, se llama "Sobre". Qué piensas, Sobre? - 00515f39 Nov 7, 2009
• jeje. - samdie Nov 7, 2009

Answer 7

De qué piensas? En qué piensas?¿¿

• The latter is correct, not the former. - Stobber Nov 7, 2009