Translations for „guess“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

I . guess <-es> [ges] N

guess

ugibanje n

guess (estimate)

ocena f

I'll give you three guesses

trikrat lahko ugibaš

how did you know? - it was just a lucky guess

kako si vedel? - kar uganil sem

to have a guess

ugibati

to take a wild guess

ugibati na slepo

at a guess

približno

at a guess

na pamet

my guess is that ...

domnevam, da ...

your guess is as good as mine

ravno toliko vem kot ti

it's anyone's guess

težko je reči

II . guess [ges] VB intr

1. guess:

guess (conjecture)

domnevati

guess (conjecture)

ugibati [perf uganiti]

how did you guess?

kako si uganil?

to keep sb guessing

pustiti koga v negotovosti

to guess at sth

ugibati o čem

to guess at sth (estimate)

[na grobo] oceniti kaj

2. guess esp Am (suppose):

guess

meniti

guess

misliti

I guess you're right

verjetno imaš prav

III . guess [ges] VB trans

guess

domnevati

guess

ugibati [perf uganiti]

guess where I'm calling from

ugani, od kod kličem

I bet you can't guess how old she is

stavim, da ne moreš uganiti, koliko je stara

guess what?

si predstavljaš?

to guess that ...

domnevati, da ...

sec·ond-ˈguess VB trans esp Am

1. second-guess (forecast):

second-guess

napovedovati [perf napovedati]

to second-guess sb

napovedati, kaj bo kdo napravil

2. second-guess (criticize with hindsight):

second-guess

naknadno/pozneje kritizirati

Usage examples with guess

it's anyone's guess

težko je reči

guess what?

si predstavljaš?

you'll never guess what ...

nikoli ne boš uganil, kaj ...

my guess is that ...

domnevam, da ...

at a rough guess

po grobi oceni

to have a guess

ugibati

how did you guess?

kako si uganil?

I guess you're right

verjetno imaš prav

to guess wildly

naključno ugibati

at a guess

približno

to make an informed guess

na podlagi česa ugibati

to make a shrewd guess

dobro ugibati

to make an educated guess

upravičeno domnevati

to take a wild guess

ugibati na slepo

guess where I'm calling from

ugani, od kod kličem

your guess is as good as mine

ravno toliko vem kot ti

guess who I bumped into the other day

ugani, na koga sem zadnjič naletel

I bet you can't guess how old she is

stavim, da ne moreš uganiti, koliko je stara

I guess you could call this success of a kind

mislim, da bi temu lahko rekli neke vrste uspeh

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

My guess is that entrepreneurial activities will be on the rise as people start their own small business out of necessity.

www.macleans.ca

If their guess is incorrect, the score is halved.

en.wikipedia.org

He tends to second-guess everything he is presented with, and is extremely meticulous and analytical.

en.wikipedia.org

They would then guess a letter they thought would be in a word puzzle on their screen.

en.wikipedia.org

I guess we could go in and redo it.

en.wikipedia.org

I guess there was a word count that the card company was obligated to fulfill.

the6thsens.com

This is little more than an unverifiable guess, however, and a rather facile one, given that the work is transmitted by a single 10th-century manuscript.

en.wikipedia.org

Do not try to second-guess the market: even the greatest experts fall foul at times doing that.

www.telegraph.co.uk

But then this is not, as you might guess, your common-or-garden supplier of chops and chitterlings.

www.independent.co.uk

Our guess is better than expected and in a manner that will make us choke on our eggnog.

www.avclub.com