reckon
part of speech
verb (reckon, reckons, reckoned, reckoning)
meaning for a pupil
1) (informal, especially UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) To think or believe; to have an opinion. tree →
2) To guess or estimate a number. tree →
3) (formal, old) To count or calculate. tree →
4) reckon on: to expect or rely on something. tree →
5) reckon with: to have to deal with someone or something. tree →
sense in the lessons
Very common in everyday talk: "I reckon it'll rain". In maths it can mean estimate: "how many do you reckon are in the jar?". Phrases: I reckon, reckon on, reckon with, a force to be reckoned with, day of reckoning.
examples
- I reckon it's going to rain this arvo. tree →
- How many sweets do you reckon are in the jar? tree →
- She reckons she can run faster than her brother. tree →
- We didn't reckon on so many people coming. tree →
- He's a player to be reckoned with. tree →
- I reckon the shop is about two kilometres away. tree →
- Do you reckon we'll win? tree →
- ‘Let us reckon the heads first. tree →
note
Regular verb: reckoned. In casual speech "I reckon" just means "I think" and gives an opinion, not a fact. In a maths problem "reckon" usually means estimate, so the number is a guess, not exact.
In the corpora
- Which bits do you reckon they picked?" Alfie grins: "The shouty ones."
- And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
- And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah,
- All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
- And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «reckon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.