reckon

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
4. (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
6. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

Noun

An impression or opinion.

Noun

Alternative form of rackan (“chain”).

Sinonieme

calculate

count

🔢

compute

think

🤔

consider

estimate

figure

suppose

guess

imagine

account

work out

believe

conjecture

regard

opine

judge

🧑‍⚖️

enumerate

number

🔢

surmise

assume

cypher

do accounts

add up

tally

cipher

presume

assess

work out accounts

expect

deem

count on

bet

reckon on

trust

view

appraise

see

👀

speculate

rate

rely

plan

rely on

measure

depend

esteem

look

numerate

forecast

take

Vertalings

calculer

calcolare

calcular

rechnen

🔢

calcular

compter

🔢

υπολογίζω

estimer

contar

🔢

calcular

rekenen

berechnen

considerar

tellen

🔢

veronderstellen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛkən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: rekenen

Geërf van Old English: recenian

Verwante met Skots: rekkin

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: reekenje

Verwante met Fries: rekkenje

Verwante met Nederlands: rekenen

Verwante met Duits: rechnen

Verwante met Sweeds: räkna

Verwante met Yslands: reikna

Verwante met Latyn: rectus

In summary

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).
Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Danish regne (“to calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.