perhaps
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Pronunciation [change]
- (UK) IPA: /pəˈhæps/, SAMPA: /p@"h{ps/
- (US) IPA: /pɚˈhæps/, SAMPA: /p@`"h{ps/
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Adverb [change]
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- If you say that perhaps something will happen or that perhaps it is true, you mean it may happen or be true.
- Perhaps someday I'll learn how to drive.
- If I tried again, perhaps it might work.
- You use maybe when you are not sure about something.
- We shouldn't do it, we don't want to do it, and perhaps most importantly, we don't have the money to do it.
- Nokia is perhaps Finland's best-known company.
