"remain to be seen" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-remain to be seen.ogg Forms: remains to be seen [present, singular, third-person], remaining to be seen [participle, present], remained to be seen [participle, past], remained to be seen [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} remain to be seen (third-person singular simple present remains to be seen, present participle remaining to be seen, simple past and past participle remained to be seen)
  1. (idiomatic) To have not yet happened; to be as yet unknown. Tags: idiomatic Translations (be as yet unknown): 還有待觀察 (Chinese Mandarin), 还有待观察 (hái yǒudài guānchá) (Chinese Mandarin), to se ještě ukáže (Czech), to se teprve ukáže (Czech), valt nog af te wachten (Dutch), jäädä nähtäväksi (Finnish), rester à voir (French), rester à savoir (French), zeigen [reflexive] (German), abzuwarten bleiben (German), gjenstå å se (Norwegian Bokmål), to się jeszcze okaże (Polish), estar por ver (Spanish), quedar por ver (Spanish), återstå att se (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "be as yet unknown",
          "word": "還有待觀察"
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          "sense": "be as yet unknown",
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          "sense": "be as yet unknown",
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "還有待觀察"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hái yǒudài guānchá",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "to se teprve ukáže"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "valt nog af te wachten"
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "jäädä nähtäväksi"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "rester à voir"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "rester à savoir"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
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      "word": "zeigen"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "abzuwarten bleiben"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "gjenstå å se"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "to się jeszcze okaże"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "estar por ver"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
      "word": "quedar por ver"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "be as yet unknown",
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