Need help with "deja de pensar"
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The translator renders this as "stop thinking" but "deja" is the third person present or imperative of dejar "to let" and pensar is the infinitive "to think". Is this an idiom?
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updated Jul 15, 2010
posted by jacob4408
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Yes what rockdown says, dejar+de + the infinitive means 'to stop, to fail to do' so kind of the opposite of dejar which you can translate as 'to let, to permit, to allow' etc
updated Jul 15, 2010
posted by margaretbl
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dejar+de is to quit doing something. Dejar de fumar means to quit smoking =p
updated Jul 15, 2010
posted by rockdown667
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Thank you both!
updated Jul 15, 2010
posted by jacob4408
