denkn

• denka, denga (West Central Bavarian)

From Middle High German denken, from Old High German thenken, denken, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng-. Cognate with German denken, Dutch denken, Low German denken, dinken, West Frisian tinke, English think, Icelandic þekkja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̥eŋɡ̥ːŋ/, [ˈd̥e̞-], [-ɡ̥ːɴ̩]
• IPA^(key): /ˈd̥e̞ŋkˣːn̩/ (Tyrol)
• Hyphenation: denkn

denkn (past participle denkt) (Austria, East Central Bavarian, Vienna, Southern Bavarian, Carinthia, Tyrol)

1. (intransitive, [ån (about) + accusative], rarely transitive) to think

   I denk ån wås ånders. ― I am thinking about something else.

2. (intransitive, with ån + accusative) not to forget; to remember (to bring along, etc.)

   Denk åns Zuamåchn! ― Don’t forget to close up.

3. (transitive, with reflexive dative) to imagine

   Des kånn i ma denkn. ― I can imagine that.

4. (transitive, with reflexive dative) to think, to believe, to assume, to conjecture

   Jå, des håb i ma eh denkt. ― Yes, I thought so anyway.