Di que sientes cuando pienso en ti

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Di que sientes cuando pienso en ti

Am I missing something or is that "Say how you feel when I think about you?" How does that make sense?

Gracias.

Di que sientes cuando pienso en ti Una y otra vez Cada instante que no estás junto a mi Mi mundo esta al revés Camino en un desierto cuando tu te vas No se si es un espejismo, te siento tan real Baby

Answer 1

Am I missing something or is that "Say how you feel when I think about you?" How does that make sense?

Actually, it says "Say that you feel when I think about you", since "qué" doesn't have an accent, and therefore is pronounced unstressed. Most likely it should be written with an accent, meaning "what".

Now, if you know something, you ask "what do you think?"; if you say something, you ask "What do you say?", so if you feel something (transitive), then in theory, you should ask "What do you feel?", and yet, it is more common to say "How do you feel?" instead, probably because you can also "feel well" (intransitive), where "well" is not an object. "What" asks for an object, while "How" asks for an adverb of manner, not an object. "Di qué sientes" is asking for a noun or action that describes the feeling (a direct object), not the manner in which you feel.

Excelente! - Benz, Jan 27, 2011

Answer 2

Tell me what you feel when I think of you time and time again. Each moment you are not with me my world is upside down. I walk on a desert when you are gone. I am not sure if you are a mirage since you seem so real.

So the me in "dime" which is only "di" is implied? Gracias. - jeezzle, Jan 26, 2011

Di is Say (to me) but in English we say Tell me more often. Except in cases such as Say it ain't so. - gone, Jan 26, 2011

Answer 3

Well, it's weird but who knows when talking about poetry.

• I think it's Say what do you feel when I thing about you, the words "what" and "how" change the sense of the sentence, and "qué" means what in this case..