Participles

Question

I have a question about two phrases I ran across in reading a blog post by a native Spanish speaker.

1. Lo que ahora tengo pensado es que ya no haré un curso, en cambio voy a escribir una guía.

"What now _ is that I no longer will make a course, rather I will write a guide."

What is this person trying to say with the bolded part? Is it a typo?

1. Sigo sin creer que haya pasado un año desde que intenté lanzar el curso

"I continue without believing that a year has passed since I tried to release the course."

Why the use of the subjunctive here? I see que, but is it 'creer' that would be the indicator of that mood here?

If you help to answer these questions, I thank you.

Answer 1

I have a question about two phrases I ran across in reading a blog post by a native Spanish speaker.

1. Lo que ahora tengo pensado es que ya no haré un curso, en cambio voy a escribir una guía.

"What now _ is that I no longer will make a course, rather I will write a guide."

What is this person trying to say with the bolded part? Is it a typo?

Literally have (as) something thought, I would interpret it as have in mind, see my answer of earlier today on use of tener sort of like an auxiliary, which will help the thinking about it:

http://www.spanishdict.com/users/895210/RolloMartins

1. Sigo sin creer que haya pasado un año desde que intenté lanzar el curso

"I continue without believing that a year has passed since I tried to release the course."

Why the use of the subjunctive here? I see que, but is it 'creer' that would be the indicator of that mood here?

Sin creer= without believing, is similar to no creer, not believing.

Creer que indicative

No creer que is subjunctive, so sin creer would be the same. It is the use of sin that makes it subjunctive.

Thsnk you :) - LaHeroína, May 19, 2017

De nada. :) - bosquederoble, May 19, 2017

Answer 2

Tener pensado is an expression. It means like pensar.

Tengo pensado ir al cine is similar to Pienso ir al cine. Maybe it could give more the idea that ithe thinking takes certain time .

Tener pensado is like tener entendido I have explained in another entry. Maybe there could be more expressions with tener. For example:

Tener sabido and maybe others.

"Pienso ir al cine" = I'm thinking of going to the movies, right? So would a good translation be "I'm thinking about"? - LaHeroína, May 19, 2017

I never know exactly the difference between of and about after think. Sorry. - polenta1, May 20, 2017

You could say Pienso ir al cine or Tengo pensado ir al cine. The latter is less used and in my opinion expresses more that the thinking took at least a little longer. - polenta1, May 20, 2017

Not necessarily. Pienso EN mi novio. means I'm thinking about my boyfriend. Think of "pienso ir al cine" as "I intend or I plan" to go to the movies. - Daniela2041, May 20, 2017

Lo siento, Polenta. Tu español es fantástico, pero hay un poco de inglés que te falta todavía. Pero eres muy avanzada en inglés. - Daniela2041, May 20, 2017