judge

1. verb

1) (to hear and try (cases) in a court of law: Who will be judging this murder case?) soditi

2) (to decide which is the best in a competition etc: Is she going to judge the singing competition again?; Who will be judging the vegetables at the flower show?; Who is judging at the horse show?) ocenjevati

3) (to consider and form an idea of; to estimate: You can't judge a man by his appearance; Watch how a cat judges the distance before it jumps; She couldn't judge whether he was telling the truth.) presoditi

4) (to criticize for doing wrong: We have no right to judge him - we might have done the same thing ourselves.) obsojati

2. noun

1) (a public officer who hears and decides cases in a law court: The judge asked if the jury had reached a verdict.) sodnik

2) (a person who decides which is the best in a competition etc: The judge's decision is final (= you cannot argue with the judge's decision); He was asked to be on the panel of judges at the beauty contest.) razsodnik

3) (a person who is skilled at deciding how good etc something is: He says she's honest, and he's a good judge of character; He seems a very fine pianist to me, but I'm no judge.) dober poznavalec

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- judgement

- judgment
- judging from / to judge from
- pass judgement on
- pass judgement

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I [džʌdž]

noun

juridically sodnik

figuratively razsodnik; izvedenec, strokovnjak, dober poznavalec česa (of); military judge advocate — sodnik pri naglem sodišču

military judge advocate general — vrhovni sodnik pri naglem sodišču

associate judge — sodni prisednik

as God's my judge! — pri bogu!

to be a judge of — razumeti se na kaj

a good judge of — dober poznavalec česa

I am no judge of it — tega ne morem presoditi

let me be the judge of that — prepusti to meni

to be judge and jury in one's own cause — biti sodnik in tožitelj hkrati

as sober as a judge — popolnoma trezen

II [džʌdž]

1.

transitive verb

soditi, razsoditi, presoditi, odločiti (s.th. kaj, that da); sklepati (by po), preceniti;

2.

intransitive verb

razsoditi, izreči sodbo; ustvariti si sodbo (of o, by, from po); domnevati, soditi, misliti

judge for yourself! — sam presodi!

judging by his words — sodeč po njegovih besedah

to judge by ( —ali from) — sodeč po

I judge that — sodim, da; domnevam