pretendido

pretendido

"Intended" or "claimed."

Here, 'pretendido' is used as an adjective meaning 'intended', describing the goal Maria aimed to achieve.

María logró su objetivo pretendido después de mucho esfuerzo.

Maria achieved her intended goal after much effort.

Here, 'pretendido' is used to mean 'supposed' or 'alleged', providing a hypothetical or assumed nature to the prince.

Juan actuó como el príncipe pretendido de la historia.

Juan acted as the supposed prince of the story.

Here, 'pretendido' has a critical or doubtful tone, implying that what is termed as a discovery is questioned in validity or value.

El pretendido descubrimiento resultó más complejo de lo esperado.

The so-called discovery turned out to be more complex than expected.