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English
Etymology
From presume + -ably, presumable + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
presumably (comparative more presumably, superlative most presumably)
- Able to be sensibly presumed.
- Synonyms: presumptively, presumedly
Presumably, he will attend the opening.
2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
Translations
able to be sensibly presumed
- Arabic: الْمُفْتَرَض مِنْ (ar) (min al-muftaraḍ)
- Bulgarian: възможно (bg) (vǎzmožno), навярно (bg) (navjarno)
- Catalan: presumiblement (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大概 (zh) (dàgài), 想必 (zh) (xiǎngbì), 推測上／推测上 (zh) (tuīcè shàng), 假定上 (zh) (jiǎdìng shàng)
- Danish: antageligvis
- Dutch: vermoedelijk (nl), waarschijnlijk (nl)
- Esperanto: supozeble
- Finnish: oletettavasti (fi)
- French: présumablement (fr)
- German: vermutlich (de), voraussichtlich (de)
- Hungarian: feltételezhetően (hu), alighanem (hu), valószínűleg (hu), vélhetőleg (hu), feltehetőleg (hu)
- Irish: de réir cosúlachta, de réir dealraimh
- Japanese: おそらく (ja) (osoraku), 思うに (ja) (おもうに, omou ni), 推定上 (ja) (すいていじょう, suteijō)
- Polish: przypuszczalnie (pl)
- Portuguese: presumivelmente
- Russian: предположи́тельно (ru) (predpoložítelʹno)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на́равно, разу̀мљиво, подразумијева се, подразумева се
- Roman: náravno (sh), razùmljivo (sh), podrazumijeva se (sh), podrazumeva se
- Spanish: presumiblemente, probablemente (es), presuntamente
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