Definitions For Methink

Alternative forms

methinketh, me thinketh, me thinks, mythinks, my thinks

Etymology

From me, , object pronoun + think, , to seem. In early modern english, used at least 150 times by w:william shakespeare, william shakespeare; in middle english by w:geoffrey chaucer, geoffrey chaucer, me thinketh; and in old english by w:alfred the great, alfred the great, mē þyncþ. Compare synonymous German mich dünkt.

Contraction

{{en-cont}} (past tense: methought) (archaic, or, humorous) It seems to me.

Translations

Arabic: يبدو لي (yabdu li) Bulgarian: струвам, alt=струва {{l, bg, ми}} {{l, bg, се}} Chinese: : Mandarin: 據我看來}}, 据我看来 (jù wǒ kàn lái), 依我看來, 依我看来 (yī wǒ kàn lái), 我認為, {{t, cmn, 我认为 (wǒ rènwéi) Dutch: me dunkt Estonian: mulle tundub, minu meelest Finnish: minusta tuntuu, mielestäni French: il me semble, il m'apparaît, il m’apparaît (the latter is unusual, so conveys better the archaic meaning), m'est avis Georgian: ალბათ German: mich dünkt, also archaic mir deucht for meseems Hebrew: חושבני, m (χoʃˈvani) {{qualifier, flowery}}, חושבתני, f (χoʃˈvatni) {{qualifier, flowery}} Hungarian: úgy tűnik, olybá tűnik (the latter is archaic or humorous) Icelandic: mér virðist, mér sýnist Italian: mi sembra, mi pare Japanese: 私が思うに (watashi ga omou ni) Lithuanian: manding Low German: : German Low German: mi dücht, mi dünkt Macedonian: ми се чи́ни, sc=Cyrl Norwegian: det synes meg Portuguese: parecer, alt=me parece, parece-me Romanian: îmi pare Russian: я, мне казаться, ка́жется, кажи́сь, sc=Cyrl, похо́же, sc=Cyrl, похо́ду, sc=Cyrl, сдаваться, alt=сдаётся, sc=Cyrl Serbo-Croatian: čini mi se Slovene: zdi se mi Spanish: parecer, alt=me parece Swedish: det tycks mig, det synes mig, mig tyckes Turkish: sanırım ki, galiba