No entiendo el sentido.

I do not understand the meaning.

Breakdown of No entiendo el sentido.

• entender: to understand
• no: not
• el sentido: the sense or meaning

Questions & Answers about No entiendo el sentido.

Why is no placed before entiendo?

In Spanish, the usual way to make a sentence negative is to put no directly before the conjugated verb.

• Entiendo = I understand
• No entiendo = I do not understand

This is much simpler than English, because Spanish does not need a separate helping verb like do.

What form is entiendo?

Entiendo is the first-person singular present tense of entender, meaning I understand.

So:

• entender = to understand
• entiendo = I understand

The full sentence is literally:

• No entiendo el sentido = I do not understand the sense / meaning / point

Why is it entiendo and not entendo?

Because entender is a stem-changing verb in the present tense.

The e in the stem changes to ie in most present-tense forms:

• yo entiendo
• tú entiendes
• él/ella entiende

But not in nosotros and vosotros:

• nosotros entendemos
• vosotros entendéis

This is a very common pattern in Spanish.

Why is there no yo in the sentence?