denken

From Middle Dutch denken, from Old Dutch thenken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛŋkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: den‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkən

denken

1. (intransitive) to think [+ aan (object) = about, of]

   Ik denk vaak aan mijn vriendin. ― I often think about my girlfriend.

• Afrikaans: dink, denk
• Jersey Dutch: dänke
• Negerhollands: denk, dink, diṅk, diṅg, diṅ
• → Aukan: denki
• → Sranan Tongo: denki
  • → Caribbean Javanese: dèngki
  • → Saramaccan: tínga

• kenden, kneden

From Middle High German denken, from Old High German thenken, denken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-.

Cognate with Bavarian denkn, denka, Dutch denken, Low German denken, dinken, West Frisian tinke, English think, Icelandic þekkja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛŋkən/, [ˈdɛŋkən], [ˈdɛŋʔŋ̍]

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denken (irregular weak, third-person singular present denkt, past tense dachte, past participle gedacht, past subjunctive dächte, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive, [an (about) + accusative], rarely transitive) to think

   Ich denke, also bin ich.

   I think, therefore I am.

   Er denkt gewichtige Dinge.

   He is thinking weighty thoughts.

   Ich denke an früher.

   I am thinking about the past.

2. (intransitive, with an + accusative) not to forget; to remember (to bring along, etc.)

   Denk an den Schlüssel!

   Don’t forget the key.

3. (transitive, with reflexive dative) to imagine

   Das kann ich mir denken.

   I can imagine that.

   Ich denke ihn mir als bärtigen Einsiedler.

   I imagine him as a bearded hermit.

4. (transitive, with reflexive dative) to think, to believe, to assume, to conjecture

   Ja, das dachte ich mir.

   Yes, I thought so.

Denken originally took a genitive object (ich denke deiner instead of ich denke an dich). This usage is now archaic.

• “denken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “denken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “denken” in Duden online
• “denken” in OpenThesaurus.de
• denken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• dinken

From Old Saxon thenkian, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-.

denken (third-person singular simple present denkt, past tense dach, past participle dacht, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to think

From Middle High German denken, from Old High German denken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæŋken/, [ˈdæŋ.kən]

denken (third-person singular present denkt, preterite duecht or duet, past participle geduecht or geduet, past subjunctive diecht, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to think

• ausdenken
• bedenken
• ëmdenken
• gedenken
• iwwerdenken
• nodenken
• verdenken
• zeréckdenken

From Old Dutch thenken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeŋkən/

denken

1. to think

• dinken

• bedenken
• erdenken
• gedenken
• herdenken
• verdenken
• voldenken

• Dutch: denken
  • Afrikaans: dink, denk
  • Jersey Dutch: dänke
  • Negerhollands: denk, dink, diṅk, diṅg, diṅ
  • → Aukan: denki
  • → Sranan Tongo: denki
    • → Caribbean Javanese: dèngki
    • → Saramaccan: tínga
• Limburgish: dinke

• “denken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “denken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old Saxon thenkian, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną. Cognate with Dutch denken and English think.

• (originally) IPA^(key): /deŋkən/

denken

1. to think, to perceive

• andenken

• Low German: denken, dinken
• → Old Norse: þenkja
  • Faroese: teinkja
  • Norwegian: tenke
  • Old Swedish: þænkia
    • Swedish: tänka
  • Old Danish: thænkæ
    • Danish: tænke
  • Elfdalian: taintja
  • Gutnish: tänke
  • Scanian: tæńḱa

From Middle High German denken, from Old High German denken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to perceive, think”). Cognate with German denken, English think.

denken

1. to think

• “denken” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

From Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, akin to Old Saxon thenkian, Old Dutch thenken, Old English þencan, Old Norse þekkja, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þagkjan).

denken

1. to think

• Middle High German: denken
  • Alemannic German: tenke
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: dénkhan

    Mòcheno: denken

  • German: denken
  • Yiddish: דענקען (denken)