denkn

Bavarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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 German denken, Dutch denken, Low German denken, dinken, West Frisian tinke, English think, Icelandic þekkja.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̥eŋɡ̥ːŋ/, [ˈd̥e̞-], [-ɡ̥ːɴ̩]
  • IPA(key): /ˈd̥e̞ŋkˣːn̩/ (Tyrol)
  • Hyphenation: denkn

Verb

denkn (past participle denkt) (Austria, East Central Bavarian, Vienna, Southern Bavarian, Carinthia, Tyrol)

  1. (intransitive, [ån (about) + accusative], rarely transitive) to think
    I denk ån wås ånders.I am thinking about something else.
  2. (intransitive, with ån + accusative) not to forget; to remember (to bring along, etc.)
    Denk åns Zuamåchn!Don’t forget to close up.
  3. (transitive, with reflexive dative) to imagine
    Des kånn i ma denkn.I can imagine that.
  4. (transitive, with reflexive dative) to think, to believe, to assume, to conjecture
    Jå, des håb i ma eh denkt.Yes, I thought so anyway.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • ausdenkn
  • bedenkn
  • derdenkn
  • durchdenkn
  • einedenkn
  • mitdenkn
  • nåchdenkn
  • querdenkn
  • umdenkn
  • vuadenkn
  • weiderdenkn
  • zerdenkn
  • zruckdenkn
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