Can you imagine what our lives would be like without electricity?
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Imagine
//ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn//
Synonyms for "imagine" (119 found)
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8 entriesTranslations
153 translations across 56 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- تخيل verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- تصور verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- تَخَيَّلَ verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- تَصَوَّرَ verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Armenian
1 entries- պատկերացնել verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təsəvvür etmək verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Belarusian
2 entries- уяві́ць verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- уяўля́ць verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Bulgarian
4 entries- въобразя́вам си verb ((intransitive) to use one's imagination)
- вя́рвам verb ((transitive) to believe)
- предпола́гам verb ((transitive) to assume)
- предполо́жа verb ((transitive) to assume)
Catalan
4 entries- imaginar verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- imaginar verb ((transitive) to believe)
- imaginar verb ((transitive) to assume)
- imaginar verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 想像 verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 想像 verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Czech
2 entries- představit si verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- představovat si verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Danish
1 entries- forestille sig verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Dutch
4 entries- fantaseren verb ((intransitive) to use one's imagination)
- raden verb ((intransitive) to guess)
- speculeren verb ((intransitive) to guess)
- veronderstellen verb ((transitive) to assume)
Esperanto
4 entries- antaŭvidi verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
- bildigi verb ((transitive) to believe)
- imagi verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- imagi verb ((transitive) to believe)
Estonian
1 entries- kujutlema verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Finnish
4 entries- arvata verb ((transitive) to assume)
- arvata verb ((intransitive) to guess)
- arvella verb ((transitive) to assume)
- arvella verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
French
4 entries- imaginer verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- imaginer verb ((transitive) to believe)
- imaginer verb ((transitive) to assume)
- imaginer verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
Galician
1 entries- imaxinar verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
German
2 entries- einbilden verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- vorstellen verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Greek
3 entries- φαντάζομαι verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- φαντάζομαι verb ((transitive) to assume)
- φαντάζομαι verb ((intransitive) to use one's imagination)
Hebrew
1 entries- תאר verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Hindi
2 entries- कल्पना करना verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- तसव्वुर करना verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Hungarian
2 entries- elképzel verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- képzel verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Indonesian
1 entries- bayangkan verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Italian
4 entries- figurarsi verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- immaginare verb ((transitive) to believe)
- immaginare verb ((transitive) to assume)
- immaginarsi verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Japanese
1 entries- 想像する verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Kazakh
1 entries- елестету verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Korean
1 entries- 상상하다 verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- элестетүү verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Latin
4 entries- crēdō verb ((transitive) to believe)
- imaginor verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- opīnor verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- opīnor verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
Latvian
1 entries- iedomāties verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Lithuanian
1 entries- įsivaizduoti verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Macedonian
4 entries- замисли verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- замислува verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- се вообрази verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- се вообразува verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Middle English
4 entries- ymagynen verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- ymagynen verb ((transitive) to believe)
- ymagynen verb ((transitive) to assume)
- ymagynen verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
Mirandese
1 entries- eimaginar verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Māori
2 entries- pohewa verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- pohewa verb ((transitive) to conjecture)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forestille seg verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Old English
1 entries- hīwian verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Persian
1 entries- تصور کردن verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Polish
2 entries- wyobrazić sobie verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- wyobrażać sobie verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Portuguese
4 entries- achar verb ((transitive) to assume)
- crer verb ((transitive) to assume)
- fantasiar verb ((intransitive) to use one's imagination)
- imaginar verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Romanian
2 entries- imagina verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- închipui verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Russian
4 entries- ве́рить verb ((transitive) to believe)
- вообража́ть verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- вообража́ть verb ((intransitive) to use one's imagination)
- вообрази́ть verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- saoil verb ((transitive) to believe)
- saoil verb ((transitive) to assume)
- saoil verb ((intransitive) to guess)
- smaoinich verb ((transitive) to believe)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zamisliti verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- zamišljati verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Slovak
2 entries- predstaviť si verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- predstavovať si verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Slovene
2 entries- predstaviti si verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- predstavljati si verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Spanish
4 entries- flashear verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- imaginar verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- imaginar verb ((transitive) to assume)
- imaginarse verb ((transitive) to assume)
Swedish
1 entries- föreställa sig verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Tajik
1 entries- тасаввур кардан verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Telugu
1 entries- భావించు verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Thai
2 entries- จินตนา verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- จินตนาการ verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Turkish
1 entries- tasavvur etmek verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Ukrainian
2 entries- уяви́ти verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
- уявля́ти verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Urdu
1 entries- تصور کرنا verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Uzbek
1 entries- tasavvur qilmoq verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tưởng tượng verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Walloon
1 entries- mådjiner verb ((transitive) to form a mental image of something)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Can you imagine me making a cake?
Source: tatoeba (16098)
Imagine yourself to be in his place.
Source: tatoeba (17749)
I can imagine how you felt.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.