"Maybe?"

Translation: Kanskje?

[bronzdragon]

This sounds like the Dutch 'kans', which means chance. Same root, I assume?

[fveldig]

They're not cognates.

'kanskje' = 'kan+skje' = 'may+happen', while 'kans' is related to 'chance', which would be 'sjanse' in Norwegian.

[ilmolleggi]

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".

[Christian.920]

So it can mean "perhaps" and "maybe"

[Maxim787245]

i agree