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¿Qué piensas hacer el domingo?

¿Qué piensas hacer el domingo?
What are you planning to do on Sunday?
From Lesson 97:Making plans (¿quedamos?, ¿te apetece?)·Spanish (Spain)

Breakdown of ¿Qué piensas hacer el domingo?

qué
what
pensar
to think
hacer
to do, to make
el domingo
the Sunday

Questions & Answers about ¿Qué piensas hacer el domingo?

Why does piensas mean 'planning to' here instead of 'thinking'?
The verb pensar usually means 'to think'. However, when you use pensar directly before an infinitive verb (an unconjugated verb like hacer), it changes meaning to 'to plan to' or 'to intend to' do something. So, piensas hacer translates to 'you plan to do'.
Why is there an el before domingo? Doesn't that mean 'the Sunday'?
In Spanish, you never use a preposition like 'on' for days of the week. Instead, you just use the masculine definite article el for a single day, or los if it happens every week. Here, el domingo translates exactly to 'on Sunday'.
Do I need a linking word like a or de between piensas and hacer?
No, you don't need any connecting word here. While some Spanish verbs require a preposition before a second verb (for example, ir a meaning 'to be going to'), the verb pensar connects directly to the next verb without one.
Why is domingo written with a lowercase letter?
Unlike in English, days of the week (like domingo) and months of the year are never capitalized in Spanish, unless they happen to be the very first word of a sentence.

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