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Swedish
Etymology
From möjlig (“possible”) + -het. Compare to German Möglichkeit.
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Noun
möjlighet c
- possibility, opportunity
1900, Gustaf af Geijerstam, Boken om Lille-Bror:Jag betalade och gick ut i hotellets vestibul, där jag drev fram och tillbaka, utan möjlighet att sitta stilla, utan möjlighet att tänka en redig tanke.- I paid up and went out into the lobby of the hotel, where I paced back and forth, incapable of sitting still, incapable of thinking a single lucid thought.
1935, Biblioteksbladet:[Författaren] berättar här om en lappflicka, som från sitt fattiga hem kommer som barnjungfru till jägmästarns och därigenom får möjlighet att lyfta sina kära ur elände.- here tells of a Lappish girl, who comes from her poor home to the forester's as a nanny, and thereby gains the possibility to raise her loved ones out of misery.
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