"pensare bene" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Italian]

Forms: pensàre bene [canonical], pènso bene [first-person, present, singular], pensài bene [first-person, historic, past, singular], pensàto bene [participle, past], avére [auxiliary]
Etymology: Literally, “to think well”. Etymology templates: {{m-g|to think well}} “to think well”, {{lit|to think well}} Literally, “to think well” Head templates: {{it-verb|a/è}} pensàre bene (first-person singular present pènso bene, first-person singular past historic pensài bene, past participle pensàto bene, auxiliary avére)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pensare, bene.
    Sense id: en-pensare_bene-it-verb-YxW5HyP-
  2. to think it better [+ di (object) = to]
    Sense id: en-pensare_bene-it-verb-VOhSGqvq Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of Italian links with redundant wikilinks: 14 86

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