► 成句
知れない [しれない] [かも知れない] [か＋も＋知れない] meaning: can rank: 1
☆ このまま放っておいたら大変な事になるかも知れない ⇨ If we don’t do anything about it, it may become a huge problem
☆ 彼の言っていた事は本当なのかも知れない ⇨ What he was saying may be true
More examples:
- 自分の子供を見捨てて平気な人の気が知れない ⇨ I cannot understand the mind of those who abandon their own children. I don’t know what they are thinking
- まあ、そういう事もあるかも知れない ⇨ Well, something like that could happen
- あいつは得体の知れない奴だ ⇨ He is a great enigma, unfathomable
- 彼にして見れば親切だったのかも知れないが、私には迷惑だった ⇨ Maybe that was out of kindness the way he sees it, for him, but it was annoying for me
- 彼の言っていたことは或いは本当なのかも知れない ⇨ Maybe what he was saying is true
- 彼の力は底知れない ⇨ His ability has no known bottom, is limitless
- それは形式上正しいかも知れないが、本来の意義から外れている ⇨ That may be correct in the format, but it is missing the real intention
- 彼の発見が社会に与えた影響は計り知れない ⇨ The effect of his discovery on society is immeasurable
- 得体の知れない怪物 ⇨ A monster that nobody can figure out what it is
- 彼は得体が知れない奴だ ⇨ He is impossible to figure out
- 天候に依って試合の開始時間は変わるかも知れない ⇨ The start time of the game could change depending on the weather
- もしかすると彼等は道に迷ったのかも知れない ⇨ Maybe they got lost
- 彼はその薬はこの病気にも効くかも知れないと思い至った ⇨ He came to think (after a lot of thinking) that this drug may work for this disease also