Tratar & Intentar Is it true that "intentar" needs an object, so it would go "LO estoy intentando" or "estoy intenándoLO"? "Tratar", in the other hand, can go without an object? When to use each

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Tratar & Intentar Is it true that "intentar" needs an object, so it would go "LO estoy intentando" or "estoy intenándoLO"? "Tratar", in the other hand, can go without an object? When to use each of these words: tratar, intentar and probar?

Jul 29, 2015 9:48 PM

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Tratar & Intentar

Is it true that "intentar" needs an object, so it would go "LO estoy intentando" or "estoy intenándoLO"?
"Tratar", in the other hand, can go without an object?

When to use each of these words: tratar, intentar and probar?

Probar=To try in an experimental way, ignoring what is going to be the resul. We use it when we talk about flavour, when we taste food in general, etc. To prove something you suspect it is true,

http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/search?val=probar

Intentar=To try to get a konwn result, which could be reached or not

http://buscon.rae.es/drae/srv/search?id=YLzVcFSUuDXX2WD0Ev7s

Tratar=To treat, To try, To consider,To discuss about something, In chemistry to transform a substance with another one, and many more meanings

http://lema.rae.es/drae/srv/search?key=tratar

In the links you will find examples

July 29, 2015

Tratar & Intentar

Tratar/Intentar=try to do sth (effort).

Intentar/probar =try doing sth (experiment).

July 29, 2015

@Pablo, I'm sharing my doubts with all of you, so please, feel free to help me :) @Ulysses Galvez, thanks!

July 30, 2015

From what I've learned, "Intentar" and "tratar de" mean the same thing when said, I just more commonly heard, tratar de in certain sentences. "Probar" has a different meaning however, in English it is the same verb but in Spanish it is used in a different way. "Probar" means to try in a way of testing, tasting, or trying on, like food and clothes If it helps La prueba is a quiz, which can also be a test. Back to the other two, Tratar de is a phrase that means to intend or try, as in Traté de hacer, pero no pude. "I tried to, but I couldn't" While intentar means the same thing, you must have something that you were trying to do, Intenten entenderlo. "Try to understand it" Hope this helps as a fellow learner. Hasta luego

July 29, 2015