denken.
to think
Meaning & usage
to think
Ich denke, also bin ich.
Er denkt gewichtige Dinge.
not to forget; to remember
Denk an den Schlüssel!
to imagine
Das kann ich mir denken.
Ich denke ihn mir als bärtigen Einsiedler.
to think, to believe, to assume, to conjecture
Ja, das dachte ich mir.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German denken, from Old High German denken, thenken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-. Cognate with Bavarian denkn, denka, Dutch denken, dinken, Low German denken, dinken, West Frisian tinke, English think, Icelandic þekkja, Yiddish דענקען (denken).
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