Illustration: In a Japanese community science room, two children watch a wooden ball roll toward a fork in a tabletop marble run. One branch ends above a small cup; the other leads safely into a broad catch tray. Both routes remain open, and the ball has not yet reached the fork.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

あり得える

arieru

to be possible

Example sentences

あり得えるけど、多分たぶんないな。
It’s possible, but not probable.
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ことによっては意外いがいな結末けつまつもあり得える。
Depending on how things go, it’s possible there’ll be a surprise ending.
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彼かれが小ちいさい頃ころにここに来きたことがあるというのは、あり得える話はなしだ。
It’s possible that he came here when he was a boy.
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Kanji in 得

得gain; acquireOnトクKunえる・うる

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