kans

Meaning

1. (feminine) chance
2. (feminine) opportunity
3. (feminine) probability

Concepts

chance

🎲

opportunity

luck

🍀

possibility

fortune

prospect

risk

randomicity

danger

❗

fate

lot

opening

Synonyms

mogelijkheid

geluk

🍀

gelegenheid

uitzicht

gebeurtenis

Translations

chance

🎲

Chance

🎲

Gelegenheit

oportunidad

opportunité

chance

opportunità

Möglichkeit

fırsat

probabilidad

possibilità

oportunidade

Glück

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɑns/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: canse

Cognate with French: chance

Cognate with English: chance

In summary

From Middle Dutch canse, borrowed from Old Northern French caance (compare central cheance), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from cadere (“to fall”), referring to the falling of dice. Doublet of cadans, cadens, and sjans. Cognate with French chance, English chance.

Sentences

Het vormt een uitdaging en een kans .

It is a challenge and an opportunity.

Wij hopen van harte dat zij deze kans zullen aangrijpen .

We very much hope they will seize this opportunity.

We moeten nu de kans te baat nemen om de herziening uit te voeren .

All I can do is call on us to seize the opportunity currently before us to undertake this revision.

Iedere keer dat je jezelf verbrand vergroot je de kans op huidkanker .

Every time you burn yourself, you increase the risk of skin cancer.