önsketänka

Swedish

Etymology

önska +‎ -e- +‎ tänka, probably a back-formation from önsketänkande.

Verb

önsketänka (present önsketänker, preterite önsketänkte, supine önsketänkt, imperative önsketänk)

  1. to think wishfully, to engage in wishful thinking
    • 1986, Jan Guillou, Coq Rouge, Norstedts, →ISBN, page 131:
      I den teoretiska delen av utbildningen i San Diego hade det funnits en stor mängd komiska exempel på detta som på firmaslang kallas för Grisbuktssyndromet (president Kennedys fullkomligt misslyckade invasion i Bay of Pigs förklaras med att informatörerna önsketänker för att få betalt av sina handledare, […] )
      In the theoretical part of the training in San Diego, there had been a large number of comical examples of this, which in company slang is known as the Bay of Pigs syndrome (President Kennedy's utterly failed Bay of Pigs invasion is explained by the informants' wishful thinking in order to get paid by their supervisors […] )

Conjugation

Conjugation of önsketänka (weak)
active passive
infinitive önsketänka önsketänkas
supine önsketänkt önsketänkts
imperative önsketänk —
imper. plural1 önsketänken —
present past present past
indicative önsketänker önsketänkte önsketänks, önsketänkes önsketänktes
ind. plural1 önsketänka önsketänkte önsketänkas önsketänktes
subjunctive2 önsketänke önsketänkte önsketänkes önsketänktes
present participle önsketänkande
past participle önsketänkt

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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