Definition

1. Verb:
   • To guess, to deduce by guess: To form an opinion or reach a conclusion based on incomplete information, reasoning, or estimation rather than on certain knowledge.
   • To presume, to conjecture: To suppose something to be true without definitive proof.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy chỉ đang suy đoán về kết quả. (He is just guessing about the result.)
  • Không nên suy đoán ý định của người khác. (One should not presume the intentions of others.)
  • Cảnh sát suy đoán tên trộm đã trốn qua cửa sổ. (The police deduced by guess that the thief escaped through the window.)

Advanced Usage

• "suy đoán mò": to guess wildly, to make a blind guess.
  • Đừng suy đoán mò, hãy tìm bằng chứng. (Don't guess wildly; look for evidence.)
• "dựa trên suy đoán": based on conjecture.
  • Kết luận đó chỉ dựa trên suy đoán. (That conclusion is based merely on conjecture.)

Variants and Related Words

• Suy luận (v): To reason, to infer (implies a more logical process than "suy đoán").
  • Suy luận từ các manh mối. (To reason from the clues.)
• Phỏng đoán (v): To estimate, to conjecture (very close in meaning, often used interchangeably).
  • Phỏng đoán số lượng. (To estimate the quantity.)
• Đoán (v): To guess (a simpler, more common verb).
  • Đoán xem ai sẽ đến. (Guess who will come.)

Synonyms

• Phỏng đoán: to conjecture, to estimate.
• Ước đoán: to estimate, to gauge.
• Giả định: to assume, to suppose.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Suy đoán ra: to figure out by guessing, to deduce.
  • Tôi đã suy đoán ra câu trả lời. (I figured out the answer by guessing.)

Related Idioms

• "Suy bụng ta ra bụng người": To judge others by one's own standards (literally: to deduce others' bellies from one's own belly). This idiom criticizes the act of presuming others think or feel the same way you do.
  • Anh ta cứ suy bụng ta ra bụng người, nghĩ ai cũng tham lam như mình. (He keeps judging others by his own standards, thinking everyone is as greedy as he is.)

1. Guess, deduce by guess