THE WORD · N3
かもしれない
perhaps; it may be that
Expression
列車に乗り遅れたのかもしれない。
Maybe he missed his train.
Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: mookeee · French : nimfeo
Parts of speech
Expression
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Other written forms: かも知れない
English dictionary meanings
- may
- might
- perhaps
- may be
- possibly