► 名詞
可能性 [かのうせい] meaning: possible rank: 2
☆ それが成功する可能性は低い ⇨ Its possibility of success is low
☆ 可能性に満ちた若者 ⇨ Young people full of possibilities
☆ 堤防が決壊する可能性が有る ⇨ There is a possibility that the levee will break
More examples:
- その可能性が絶対ないとは言い切れない ⇨ You can’t say definitively that the possibility doesn’t exist
- その可能性は無きにしも非ずだ (なきにしもあらず) ⇨ That possibility is not necessarily zero
- そうなる可能性が全く無いという訳ではない ⇨ It is not that there is zero possibility for that to happen
- その可能性は大いに有る ⇨ There’s a big possibility for that. That’s is very possible
- その可能性は事実上皆無だ ⇨ That possibility is practically zero
- この技術には果てしない可能性がある ⇨ This technology has limitless possibilities
- 権力は常に暴走する可能性を持っている ⇨ Power always has the possibility of running out of control
- その可能性は皆無に等しい ⇨ That possibility is equal to zero
- 彼の可能性は無限だ ⇨ His potential is limitless
- 彼は殺害された可能性が強まった ⇨ The possibility that he was murdered has increased. It has become more likely
- 十チームに未だ優勝の可能性のある大混戦 ⇨ A close battle where 10 teams still have the possibility to win the championship
- 私はその可能性を真剣に考えてみた ⇨ I thought about that possibility seriously
- 彼等が勝つ可能性は薄い ⇨ There’s little chance they win
- チームは彼のトレードの可能性は無いと明言した ⇨ The team explicitly mentioned there was no possibility of trading him
- 両社は合併する可能性が濃厚になった ⇨ The possibility has become strong, it has become very likely, that the two companies will merge