How do you parse a sentence like this?

Question

Yo te las pienso buscar cuando tenga suficiente tiempo.

I'm having trouble replacing the direct object pronoun (las) and indirect object pronoun (te) with their corresponding nouns. It's also unclear what the translation of pensar + infinitive and tenga is in this context. Here's what I've gotten:

"I think of searching for you [te] when there's enough time for them [las]"

This doesn't sound right to me. How would I go about analyzing a sentence like this?

Answer 1

Let's build this translation starting with a slightly simpler sentence:

Yo las buscaré cuando tenga suficiente tiempo
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    |     |
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          |       |
          |       |
I will look for them when I have enough time.

Now, with your original sentence:

Yo te las pienso buscar cuando tenga suficiente tiempo.
    |  |     |
    |  |     |
    +--------------------------+
       |     |                 |
    +--------+                 |
    |  |                       |
    |  +-----------------+     |
    |                    |     |
    |                    |     |
I intend to search for them for you when I have enough time.

That pienso buscar means that the speaker has an intention to do the searching, and I think it is expressed better with to intend. I also think that look for could be used instead of search, but in the case of the last translation it may produce a mess with for you.

Another option to express the same idea of the original sentence in Spanish could be:

Tengo la intención de buscártelas cuando tenga suficiente tiempo.

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Español:

Ese pienso buscar da la idea de intención, que creo que es mejor expresable en inglés con to intend. También creo que se puede usar look for en vez de search, pero en el caso de la última traducción puede que se enrede con el for you.

Otra manera de expresar esa idea en español es:

Tengo la intención de buscártelas cuando tenga suficiente tiempo.