guess

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
3. (US) to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

Noun

A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

Concepts

deviner

supposer

conjecture

supposition

conjecturer

estimer

évaluer

penser

🤔

croire

hypothèse

déduire

présomption

spéculation

estimation

présumer

imaginer

speculation

devinette

doute

essai

idée

💡

imagination

juger

🧑‍⚖️

mesurer

problème

question

❓

sentir

👃

spéculer

sympathiser avec

direction approximative

faire des conjectures sur

apprécier

Synonymes

conjecture

surmise

suppose

estimate

presume

supposition

speculate

assume

think

🤔

infer

imagine

speculation

reckon

hypothesis

guesswork

predict

approximate

anticipate

suspect

assumption

believe

opine

judge

🧑‍⚖️

expect

calculate

divine

theory

shot

estimation

say

🗣️

deem

understand

foretell

opinion

forecast

figure out

figure

sense

conclude

imagination

realise

bet

question

❓

realize

approximation

presumption

hazard

deduce

guesstimate

pretend

Traductions

indovinare

adivinar

raten

erraten

Vermutung

gissen

suponer

vermuten

supposizione

vermoeden

adivinhar

raden

supor

supporre

suposición

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡɛs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: gessen

Hérité de moyen anglais: gesse

Appartenant à danois: gisne

Appartenant à norvégien: gissa

Appartenant à suédois: gissa

Appartenant à saterlandais: gisje

Appartenant à néerlandais: gissen

Appartenant à bas-allemand: gissen

Appartenant à néerlandais: gis

Appartenant à islandais: giska

Appartenant à russe: гада́ть

Appartenant à albanais: gjëzë

In summary

From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”).
Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.