No. 9,731 in Swedish
gissar
"Guess."
In a sentence
Jag gissar att det kommer att regna imorgon.
I guess that it will rain tomorrow.
Here, 'gissar' is used to express a personal assumption or conjecture based on intuition or incomplete information.
Han gissade rätt svar på frågan.
He guessed the correct answer to the question.
In this sentence, 'gissade' (past tense of 'gissar') indicates the act of answering or choosing without certainty, and successfully identifying the correct option.
Kan du gissa vad jag har i väskan?
Can you guess what I have in my bag?
Here, 'gissa' is used to ask someone to speculate or propose an answer without prior knowledge of the contents being referred to.
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