meinen meaning and definition in german

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Verb

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third-person singular simple present meint, past tense meinte, past participle gemeint, auxiliary haben

to think to be of the opinion
to mean, to signify
to mean, to intend

Pronoun

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In colloquial spoken German, the masculine nominative forms ''mein'', ''dein'', ''kein'', etc may not be distinguished from the accusative forms ''meinen'', ''deinen'', ''keinen'' etc in adjectival use. The distinction is maintained in substantival use, i.e. without a following noun.

possessive accusative singular masculine of mein
possessive dative plural of mein

Derived terms

• Meinung, vermeinen