denken
to think
English translations
- 01
think
- 02
thought
Word details
- German meaning
- Gedanken haben; nachdenken.
- English meaning
- to think
- Synonym
- meinen, glauben, erachten
- German example
- Ich denke, das ist eine gute Idee.
- English example
- I think that's a good idea.
- Auxiliary Verb
- haben
- Present
- ich denke du denkst er/sie/es ich denkt wir denken ihr denket sie denken
- Past Participle
- ich habe gedacht du hast gedacht er/sie/es hat gedacht wir haben gedacht ihr habt gedacht sie haben gedacht
- Past
- ich dachte du dachtest er/sie/es dachte wir dachten ihr dachtet sie dachten
Related words
- denkend
Thinking
- Andenken
Souvenir
- bedenkenswert
worthy of consideration
- überdenken
to reconsider
- mitdenken
To think ahead, to anticipate
- Nützlichkeitsdenken
Utilitarianism
- vordenken
To think ahead
- Reiseandenken
Travel souvenir
- durchdenken
To think through
- verdenken
To suspect
- bedenkenlos
unhesitatingly, without hesitation
- umdenken
to rethink, to reconsider
- laut denken
to think out loud
- nachdenken
Think about
- eindenken
To empathize, to put oneself in someone else's shoes
- Besitzdenken
Possessiveness
- bedenken
To consider, to contemplate
- Schubladendenken
Stereotyping
- Menschengedenken
Since time immemorial, since the dawn of time
- zurückdenken
to think back
- andenken
Commemorate
- erdenken
to conceive, to invent
- um die Ecke denken
to think outside the box
- ausdenken
To invent
- gedenken
to commemorate
- wegdenken
Imagine away
- Wunschdenken
Wishful thinking
- Schwarzweißdenken
Black-and-white thinking
- Bedenken
Concerns, reservations
- entsinnen
to recall, to remember
- sinnieren
To ponder, to ruminate
- grübeln
to brood
- etwas aus der Luft greifen
To make something up
- darwägen
To consider carefully, to weigh up
- etwas Revue passieren lassen
To review something, to look back on something
- theoretisieren
to theorize
- ausklügeln
to devise, to contrive
- knobeln
To puzzle means to solve a difficult task or riddle, often by thinking and trying out different solutions.
- zusammenspinnen
To concoct, to fabricate
- illiberal
Illiberal
- schizophren
Schizophrenic means suffering from schizophrenia, a mental disorder that affects a person's thinking, feeling, and behavior.
- unternehmerisch
Entrepreneurial
- spontan
spontaneous
- intuitiv
Intuitive
- okzidental
Western
- komplex
Complex
- skrupellos
Unscrupulous
- irdisch
earthly
- sorglos
Carefree
Example sentences with “denken”
Ich denke oft an dich. (I think of you often.)
Frequently asked questions
How do you conjugate 'denken'?
It is a mixed verb: denke, denkst, denkt; dachte; hat gedacht.