guess
/ɡɛs/ verbe A1En français : deviner, déduire, supposer, imaginer
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate. · We can only guess at what was going through her mind.· She guessed that the delivery driver must have got stuck in traffic.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. · He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.· You guessed the right answer!
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility). · That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
- To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess". · "I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."· "I guess I'll go to bed."
Pluriel guess · He/she/it guesses · Prétérit guessed · Participe passé guessed · Forme en -ing guessing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
- guessed
- Participe passé
- guessed
- Forme en -ing
- guessing
Dans la bibliothèque
“Well, I guess you gentlemen are only doing your clear duty after all, and I have no right to stand in the way of it.
Once the bridge was up, I guess he thought he was safe.”
“Little Jerry Buote from the Creek was here this morning, and I told him I guessed I’d hire him for the summer.”
I had no difficulty in guessing that it was the Cecil Barker of whom I had heard.
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