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Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#GUESS Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰed-#GUESS

Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.

guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)Category:English lemmas#GUESS Category:English verbs#GUESS Category:English entries with incorrect language header#GUESS Category:Pages with entries#GUESS Category:Pages with 1 entry#GUESS

To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
We can only guess at what was going through her mind.Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS

She guessed that the delivery driver must have got stuck in traffic.Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS

You guessed the right answer!Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS

You will never guess what happened next.Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS
To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
  Not all together; better far, I guess, / That we do make our entrance several ways.
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- 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
  But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.
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- 1914–1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:
  "Are you a member of the union?"
  "Sure."
  "Then you'll get your job, I guess. Have you any friends?"
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(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#GUESS) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
"I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS

"I guess I'll go to bed."Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS
(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#GUESS) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
  Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
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Conjugation of *guess*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) guess

1st-person singular	guess	guessed
2nd-person singular	guess, guessest^†	guessed, guessedst^†
3rd-person singular	guesses, guesseth^†	guessed
plural	guess	guessed

subjunctive	guess	guessed

imperative	guess	—

participles	guessing	guessed

^† Archaic or obsolete.

to reach an unconfirmed conclusion

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to solve by a correct conjecture

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to suppose, to imagine

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to think, conclude, or decide without a connotation of uncertainty

(obsolete in English) to hit upon or reproduce by memory

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A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
Synonyms: estimate, hypothesis, prediction

If you don't know the answer, take a guess.Category:English terms with usage examples#GUESS
- 1907, L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz:
  "But I shall have eleven guesses," answered Ozma. "Surely I ought to guess one object in eleven correctly; and, if I do, I shall rescue one of the royal family and be safe myself. Then the rest of you may attempt it, and soon we shall free all those who are enslaved."
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- 2005, Mike Batt, “Nine Million Bicycles”, performed by Katie Melua:
  We are twelve billion light years from the edge / That's a guess
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prediction about the outcome of something — see also hunch

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