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Methinks Methinks (also written me thinks) is the third-person singular declension of an archaic Middle English verb thenken, that generally connotes an impression and is usually glossed in Modern English as "it seems to me". Although the term appears in several text prior to the 18th century, it is almost universally known from the Hamlet quotation.....

English once had two related verbs denoting thought. Thinken, which survives in Modern English, was equivalent to think. Thenken, on the other hand, was an impersonal verb and thus commonly conjugated only in the third person singular (much like the Modern English verbs to rain or to snow (i.e., it's raining, it snowed yesterday), which do not have a real agent as subject).

Ic thinke: I think thenketh: it seems hence: him thenketh (it seems to him) or me thinketh (it seems to me, later me thinks or methinks)