speculate russian

• гада́ть

  to guess, to conjecture, to speculate, to surmise

  to tell fortunes, to read cards, to practise divination

• погада́ть

  to tell fortunes, to read someone's fortune, to divine

  to guess, to surmise, to conjecture, to speculate

• спекули́ровать

  to speculate, to deal speculatively

  to profiteer, to make illicit profits, to black-market

  to trade on, to exploit, to capitalize on

• бары́шничать

  to profiteer, to job, to speculate

• спекули́ровавший

  speculating, who speculated, having speculated

Examples

• Можно только дога́дываться, что именно там произошло́.

  One can only speculate about what exactly happened there.

• Спекулирующие на бирже люди часто теряют деньги.

  People who speculate on the stock market often lose money.

• Он любит порассуждать о смысле жизни.

  He likes to speculate about the meaning of life.