Methinks

Alternative forms

 * me thinks, mythinks, my thinks

Etymology
From me: (object pronoun = "to me") + think#Etymology 2: (from þyncan:). In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by William Shakespeare; in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, me thinketh:; and in Old English by Alfred the Great, undefined:.

Contraction
(past tense: methought)


 * 1)  It seems to me.
 * 2) * 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III, scene II
 * The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
 * 1) * 1591, William Shakespeare, King Richard III: III, i
 * methinks the truth should live from age to age,
 * 1) * ~1350-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer:
 * Me thinketh accordant to reason To telle you al the condicion
 * 1) * ~870-899, Alfred the Great:
 * Forthy me thincth betre, gif iow swæ thincth, thæt we eac sumæ bec
 * 1) *2003, Arrested Development, "Bringing Up Buster":
 * Dr. Tobias Funke: Methinks a cupid I shall play.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: струвам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 據我看來, 据我看来 (jù wǒ kàn lái), 依我看來, 依我看来 (yī wǒ kàn lái), 我認為, 我认为 (wǒ rènwéi)
 * Dutch: me dunkt
 * Estonian: mulle tundub
 * Finnish: minusta tuntuu
 * French: il me semble, il m’apparaît (the latter is unusual, so conveys better the archaic meaning)


 * German: mich dünkt, also archaic mir deucht for meseems
 * Icelandic: mér virðist, mér sýnist
 * Japanese: 私が思うに (watashi ga omou ni)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мне
 * Slovene: zdi se mi
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: det tycks mig
 * Turkish: sanırım ki