Soñar con / pensar en

Thanks Domi for the following addition via e-mail:

I really like Soñar con: "To dream about"

I dream about you every night.

Sueño contigo cada noche.

However, when you're awake you "pensar en" ("to think about")

I think about you every day.

Pienso en ti cada día.

:)

Tengo que decir que te tengo por un genio. = I have to say that I think you are a genius.

Tener que = To have to (This one's another case of a Spanish phrasal verb having an English phrasal verb as a translation.)

Tenerse por = To think; to be of the opinon

P.S. Thanks La Traductora and Erica for leaving other examples of Spanish phrasal verbs in the comments section under the previous post.

I just found this one! / Acabo de encontrar esto.

acabar de + verb in infinitive form = to have just done something

Acabo de oirlo. = I just heard it.

You can count on these: contar con; confiar en; constar de

contar con and confiar en = to count on

contar con and constar de = to have, to include

I'm revealing "Hacer constar"

Hacer constar = to reveal, to declare, to publish, to make known

Llegar a ser = become

llegar a ser = a Spanish phrasal verb that means "to become" / un verbo phrasal que significa "to become."

Hurry up! We need more Spanish phrasal verbs!

to hurry up = darse prisa

Speaking of "giving up" part 2

How about "dejar de" as in "dejar de fumar" (to give up smoking)?

Speaking of "giving up",

what about "perder la esperanza" or "to lose hope." Ok, I won't!

I was about to give up... / Estuve a punto de rendirme...

...when I thought of "estar a punto de" (to be about to)

OK, I'm ready to be overwhelmed with other examples. So, leave your comments, folks!

I hope you agree with me that ESTAR DE ACUERDO is a "phrasal verb"

Here's a case of an English phrasal verb having a Spanish equivalent!

Agree with = Estar de acuerdo

¿Estas en acuerdo conmigo?

English Phrasal Verbs

Learning phrasal verbs is the thing many of my students like least about studying English. After all, why should the meaning of a verb be changed by the addition of a preposition, an adverb or a phrase? Why can't a verb like pick (to choose) remain single instead of being mated with other words to give birth to pick up and pick on? Aren't the words collect and tease good enough?
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Sometimes I respond by telling them that as student of Spanish I share their frustration because I have to learn Spanish phrasal verbs. "But," they exclaim, "phrasal verbs do not exist in Spanish!"
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Well, there may not be anything called "verbos frasales" in Spanish grammar textbooks, and the Real Academia Española (the Royal Spanish Academy) may not recognize such a category, but they do indeed exist and I plan on listing some of them here. Fell free to help me by adding ones you come across, either via email or by adding a comment to the most recent post.
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Let's see how many we can turn up, or should I just say how many we can find.
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Chao amig@s,
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Carloz