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"Maybe?"
Translation:Kanskje?
December 8, 2015
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It's related to misschien (which comes from older forms of "(het) mag (ge)schieden"), but instead of "mogen" = må (which in Norwegian means "must") it took kunnen = kunne.
Notice how similar these are: "misschien" (Dutch), "måske" (Danish), "kanskje" (Norwegian) and "kanske" (Swedish) all meaning "maybe" or even the similarly constructed "mayhaps".