Chance

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English

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Chance (countable and uncountable, plural Chances)

  1. An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States.
  2. A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Essex County, Virginia, United States.
  6. A male given name from English, an American pet form of Chauncey, in modern usage also associated with the word chance.
  7. A surname.

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French chance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃãːs(ə)/, /ˈʃɔ̃ːs(ə)/, /ˈʃaŋs(ə)/, /ˈʃɔŋs(ə)/, /ˈʃaŋzə/, /ˈʃɔŋzə/ (roughly ordered from standard to substandard, though all are common)
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  • Hyphenation: Chan‧ce

Noun

Chance f (genitive Chance, plural Chancen)

  1. chance
    • 2010, Der Spiegel‎, number 43/2010, page 170:
      Frauen haben bessere Chancen, schwerste Unfälle zu überleben, als Männer.
      Women have better chances to survive the most serious accidents than men.

Declension

Declension of Chance
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Chance die Chancen
genitive einer der Chance der Chancen
dative einer der Chance den Chancen
accusative eine die Chance die Chancen

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Chance” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Chance” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Chance” in Duden online
  • Chance on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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