Meaning

7 senses
  1. (Commonwealth)To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

    berechnen, errechnen, rechnen

    счита́тьsčitátʹ, подсчи́тыватьpodsčítyvatʹ

  2. (Commonwealth)To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

    zurechnen, zu etwas rechnen, zu etwas zählen

    счита́тьsčitátʹ

  3. (Commonwealth)To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

    zuschreiben, zusprechen, beimessen

  4. (Commonwealth, colloquial)To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

    I reckon he won't try that again.

    I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.

    schätzen, vermuten, mutmaßen

    полага́тьpolagátʹ, счита́тьsčitátʹ

  5. (Commonwealth)To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

    take account of

  6. (Commonwealth, intransitive)To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

    make a mathematical calculation or computation

  7. (Commonwealth)To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

    abrechnen

Examples

102 sentences
  1. I reckon that's a good idea.

    ruЯ считаю, это хорошая идея.

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  2. I reckon Tom will be interested.

    ruЯ полагаю, Том будет заинтересован.

    deIch glaube, Tom wird Interesse daran haben.

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  3. I reckon you should do it.

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  4. I reckon you should do that.

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  5. I reckon we should do that.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate:
colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate:
to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation:
to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value:
colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose:
to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle:

Origin

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn (“to count, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rekan (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).

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Forms

reckons, reckoning, reckoned, reckoned
Base formreckon · to reckon
3rd person singularreckons
Present participlereckoning
Past simplereckoned
Past participlereckoned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyreckon
he, she, itreckons

Past simpleLesson

all personsreckoned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave reckoned
he, she, ithas reckoned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill reckon

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

31 synonyms
attribute a value:valueB2rateB2esteem
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words

See also

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