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speculate

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Verb

Plain form (yanzu)
speculate

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi)
speculates

Past tense (ya wuce)
speculated

Past participle (ya wuce)
speculated

Present participle (ana cikin yi)
speculating

  1. (intransitive) When you speculate, you make a reasonably intelligent guess. <> yin kame-kame, hasashe, zato, tsammani.

    1. We do not have to speculate, as some do, about vague prophecies of Nostradamus or other human prognosticators.
      Ba za mu yi kame-kame ba kamar yadda waɗansu suke yi, game da annabce-annabce mai harshen damo na Nostradamus ko wasu mutane masu faɗin abin da ke zuwa a nan gaba. [1]

    2. I speculated that Tom and Jerry's marriage would not last a year.
      Ina tsammanin cewa auren Tom da Jerry ba zai kai shekara guda ba.

  2. (intransitive) When you speculate, you make a guess based on your own thoughts. <> hasashe ko canta akan tunanin ka/ki.
    It was speculated that the artist was murdered.
  3. (intransitive) (money) If you speculate, you bet in the stock market. Usually for earning some quick money.
    He lost a lot of money by speculating in stocks.

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