think
/ˈθɪŋk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.08 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
Intransitive verb
verb
To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
Transitive verb
verb
To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
Example Sentences
- "Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be."
- "Had we but world enough and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime. / We would sit down, and think which way / To walk, and pass our long love's day."
- ""I should phone my mother," I thought."
- "So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."
- "I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution."
- "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål tenke (“to think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tenkja (“to think”), Icelandic þekkja (“to know, recognise, identify, perceive”), Gothic þagkjan (“to think”), Latin tongeō (“know”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈθɪŋk/
- British English: /ˈθɪŋk/
Usage
Inflected Forms
thinks (present, singular)
thinking (participle, present)
thought (participle, past)
thought (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
thought (first person, past)
thinkest (archaic, present)
thought (past, second person)
thoughtest (archaic, past)
thinketh (archaic, present)
thought (past, singular)