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yo imaginaba

imagined, thought

→ imaginar
imagin to imagine, to picture + aba Imperfect past (I/he/she/you form)
verb · 1st-person singular / 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Uncommon #14,824
imagined, thought
SP: Me imaginaba que iba a llover.
EN: I thought it was going to rain.
Conjugation of imaginar
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
First imaginaba —
Second imaginabas —
Third imaginaba —
Subjunctive imperfect
SingularPlural
First imaginaba —
Second imaginabas —
Third imaginaba —

Imaginaba cómo se habría caído Hae-mi al pozo.

I imagined how Hae-mi must have fallen into the well.

— Burning (2018)

Eso me imaginaba.

That's what I thought.

Reaccionó peor de lo que me imaginaba cuando le conté la noticia.

He reacted worse than I imagined when I told him the news.

Seguro que no imaginaba que te lo ibas a tomar así.

I'm sure he didn't imagine you would take it that way.

— 飲食男女 (1994)

Ya lo imaginaba.

I thought so.

— El Infierno (2010)

No me imaginaba a la inspectora Salazar.

I didn't picture Inspector Salazar.

— Ofrenda a la tormenta (2020)

Se imaginaba claramente el paraíso, y ahora a lo sumo lo sospecha.

He used to clearly imagine paradise, and now at most he only suspects it.

— Las alas del deseo (1987)

Eso es lo que me imaginaba.

That's what I imagined.

Imaginaba la casa de su infancia.

He imagined his childhood home.

— Valor sentimental (2025)

Justo lo que imaginaba.

Just what I imagined.

— 活着 (1994)

Si no decía nada la gente siempre imaginaba lo peor.

If I didn't say anything, people always imagined the worst.

— El Club de la Pelea (1999)

Blume tiene más vitalidad de la que imaginaba, ¿no?

Blume has more vitality than I imagined, doesn’t he?

— Tres son multitud (1998)

Para nada lo que imaginaba.

Not at all what I imagined.

— Valor sentimental (2025)

Claro, ya me imaginaba que iba a pasar algo así tarde o temprano.

Of course, I already imagined that something like this was going to happen sooner or later.

¿Cómo te imaginaba?

What did I imagine you were like?

— Rebeca (1940)

Vaya, no me imaginaba que esto fuera tan complicado de resolver sin la herramienta adecuada.

Wow, I didn't imagine this would be so complicated to solve without the right tool.

Casiel es una mujer, como imaginaba.

Casiel is a woman, just as I imagined.

— Zeta (2026)

Debo decir que no es como la imaginaba.

I must say it's not what I imagined.

Esto podría ser más difícil de lo que me imaginaba.

This might be more difficult than I imagined.

No te imaginaba tan obstinada.

I didn't imagine you were so stubborn.

— Suspiria: Alarido (1977)

Este castillo no es como yo lo imaginaba.

This castle is not what I imagined.

— El increíble castillo vagabundo (2004)

He visto morir a gente de formas que ni imaginaba posibles.

I've seen people die in ways I never imagined possible.

— Pecadores (2025)

El hebreo fue, para él, un poco más difícil de lo que se imaginaba.

Hebrew was, for him, a little more difficult than he had imagined.

Había menos personas en la cola de lo que me imaginaba.

There were fewer people in the queue than I expected.

Ay, ya me imaginaba que todo esto que nos daba no era gratis.

Oh, I figured all this stuff they were giving us wasn’t free.

— Pedro Páramo (2024)

Lo imaginaba.

I imagined it.

Sabía que iba a ser difícil pero no imaginaba cuánto realmente.

I knew it was going to be difficult, but I didn't imagine just how difficult.

Te imaginaba más alto.

I imagined you taller.

— Las alas del deseo (1987)