Thread: надеюсь?

What does надеюсь mean?

It's not in my dictionary and the online dictionaries I've tried don't have a translation.

It's used in "I know about lots of Russian authors and their work. надеюсь when I can manage, I read...."

Thanks

It's the verb надеяться which means to hope, to expect. So надеюсь is simply the verb conjugated in the first person singular.

It's not in my dictionary and the online dictionaries I've tried don't have a translation.

In dictionary you must to type in verb

идти, спать, надеяться (and not иду, сплю, надеюсь)

надеюсь:

1) hope (for; + to inf.), expect
надеяться на что-л. — hope for
я надеюсь увидеть вас сегодня — I hope to see you today

2) rely (on), trust
надеяться на кого-л. — rely on ; trust.
не надеяться на кого-л. — have no confidence in

Translator:

http://www.lingvo.ru/lingvo/Translate.asp
http://online.multilex.ru/default.asp?
http://www.perevodov.net/Perevodov.net/ ... rection=re

You should try Lingvo -- it usually does a pretty good job with working out conjugated verbs, including надеяться\надеюсь here.


lingvo.yandex.ru

Originally Posted by NineOne

What does надеюсь mean?

It's not in my dictionary and the online dictionaries I've tried don't have a translation.

It's used in "I know about lots of Russian authors and their work. надеюсь when I can manage, I read...."

Thanks

Get a better dictionary.
My favorite is Multitran http://www.multitran.ru/

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Originally Posted by NineOne

What does надеюсь mean?

It's not in my dictionary and the online dictionaries I've tried don't have a translation.

It's used in "I know about lots of Russian authors and their work. надеюсь when I can manage, I read...."

Thanks

Get a better dictionary.
My favorite is Multitran http://www.multitran.ru/

Kwatts you miss the point. The verb is in her dictionary. She looked up the verb in a conjugates form, when, as most poeple know, verbs are listed in the infinitive form. If they listed every form of the verb in a dictionary seperately image how big dictionaries would be.

Online dictionaries are alright. Note that I said dictionaries and not 'translators'.

This is a common Russian word and it's in even the most basic and bad dictionaries.

You can't go wrong with www.lingvo.ru

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Originally Posted by NineOne

What does надеюсь mean?

It's not in my dictionary and the online dictionaries I've tried don't have a translation.

It's used in "I know about lots of Russian authors and their work. надеюсь when I can manage, I read...."

Thanks

Get a better dictionary.
My favorite is Multitran http://www.multitran.ru/

I reckon multitran sucks. You type in a simple word and you get a million words which usually don't fit or are ridiculous and never heard in modern English.

Originally Posted by basurero

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Originally Posted by NineOne

What does надеюсь mean?

It's not in my dictionary and the online dictionaries I've tried don't have a translation.

It's used in "I know about lots of Russian authors and their work. надеюсь when I can manage, I read...."

Thanks

Get a better dictionary.
My favorite is Multitran http://www.multitran.ru/

I reckon multitran sucks. You type in a simple word and you get a million words which usually don't fit or are ridiculous and never heard in modern English.

Hence kwatts' legendary translations.

Ptch-ka!

But in Multitran you can type in ANY form of the word.
This one though limited comes in handy.
https://www.seelrc.org:8443/russ/index.jsp

Originally Posted by DDT

But in Multitran you can type in ANY form of the word.
This one though limited comes in handy.
https://www.seelrc.org:8443/russ/index.jsp

My experience is that lingvo is pretty good with this, too.

Originally Posted by basurero

I reckon multitran sucks. You type in a simple word and you get a million words which usually don't fit or are ridiculous and never heard in modern English.

Is the word "reckon" typically used by Kiwis? For some reason, I always identified it as being used by American southerners...

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by basurero

I reckon multitran sucks. You type in a simple word and you get a million words which usually don't fit or are ridiculous and never heard in modern English.

Is the word "reckon" typically used by Kiwis? For some reason, I always identified it as being used by American southerners...

Ii reckon it's not just kiwis and southerners that use this word.

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by basurero

I reckon multitran sucks. You type in a simple word and you get a million words which usually don't fit or are ridiculous and never heard in modern English.

Is the word "reckon" typically used by Kiwis? For some reason, I always identified it as being used by American southerners...

In the sense of "think," "reckon" is mainly used by southerners.

No it's not!

Here is the list of countries which speak English. It is meaningless that you have only heard "reckon" used by US southerners

Majority English speaking populations are shown in bold.
http://www.krysstal.com/english.html

* Antigua
* Australia
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bermuda
* Botswana
* Brunei (with Malay)
* Cameroon (with French)
* Canada (with French)
* Dominica
* Fiji
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Grenada
* Guyana
* India (with several Indian languages)
* Ireland (with Irish Gaelic)
* Jamaica
* Kenya (with Swahili)
* Kiribati
* Lesotho (with Sotho)
* Liberia
* Malawi (with Chewa)
* Malta (with Maltese)
* Mauritius
* Namibia (with Afrikaans)
* Nauru (with Nauruan)
* New Zealand
* Nigeria
* Pakistan (with Urdu)
* Papua New Guinea
* Philippines (with Tagalog)
* Puerto Rico (with Spanish)
* St Christopher and Nevis
* St Lucia
* St Vincent
* Senegal (with French)
* Seychelles (with French)
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin and Tamil)
* South Africa (with Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu)
* Surinam (with Dutch)
* Swaziland (with Swazi)
* Tanzania (with Swahili)
* Tonga (with Tongan)
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tuvalu
* Uganda
* United Kingdom and its dependecies
* United States of America and its dependencies
* Vanatu (with French)
* Western Samoa (with Samoan)
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

heck, if you are going to list India, you might as well list the whole Europe. Hindi is the offical language of India. And don't come and tell me you can go to Pakistan and expect so speak English!

I calculate and consider that 'reckon' or 'judge' might be regarded and believed to be synonymous to assume or suppose. As I collect and think I can apparently and obviously estimate and assess to count and conclude that I conceive and perceive we can and may use and engage and all kinds and sorts of these words and terms in our speech and talking; and I gather and am convinced that it appears and seems to me that I'm not a US shoutherner nor am I a man from the South of the US. So it does not matter and is unsubstantiated, not essencial. Do you comprehend and understand?

Originally Posted by DDT

Here is the list of countries which speak English. It is meaningless that you have only heard "reckon" used by US southerners

Majority English speaking populations are shown in bold.
http://www.krysstal.com/english.html

So the hell what. It's meaningless that Gambia speaks English. Speaking English != using 100% same terminology. I don't say aubergine for eggplant, nor do I say "poke" for bag/sack, etc. If you want to tell me that "reckon" is used often or in many locales, fine -- but don't dump an irrelevant list of countries and tell me that's definitive proof that "reckon" is used there.

Dude, I reckon it's assumed we're working off our experiential knowledge... no one's going to India to see how many people say "reckon." I've only ever heard US southerners use "reckon" in the sense of "think."