No. 2,890 in Spanish
sentía
"Sentía" means "felt" or "was feeling" (past tense of sentir).
In a sentence
Cuando veía la lluvia, sentía una sensación de calma.
When I watched the rain, I felt a sense of calm.
In this sentence, 'sentía' (I felt) is used in the imperfect past tense to express a repeated or ongoing emotion in the past.
Sentía que algo importante iba a pasar.
I felt that something important was going to happen.
Here, 'sentía' conveys a subjective feeling or intuition in an imperfect past tense, indicating an ongoing sense in the past.
Ella me decía que sentía frío durante la noche.
She told me that she felt cold during the night.
The verb 'sentía' (she felt) shows an ongoing or habitual state or feeling in the past tense in relation to temperature.
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