perhaps
adverbenomtop 1 000 des dialogues de films
- Royaume-Uni//pəˈhæps//
- Royaume-Uni//pəˈɹæps//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈpɹæps//
- États-Unis//pɚˈhæps//
Possibly.
adverbe
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Possibly.
Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
There was a perhaps credible witness.
He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
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vieilliBy chance.
[…] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin per Old French parbor. Middle English per- Proto-Indo-European *kob-der. Proto-Germanic *hampą Old Norse happbor. Middle English hap Middle English perhap Middle English perhappes ▲ Middle English perhap Middle English perhappous English perhaps From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per- + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).
nom
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An uncertainty.
I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses.
Formes
- pluriel
- perhapses