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ottaa riski — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adventure noun An exciting or unusual experience, often involving some risk or the unknown.
  • chance noun An opportunity to do something.
  • risk noun The chance that something bad will happen as a result of an action or situation.

Senses

ottaa riski is used for these senses in English:

  • adventure (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
  • chance To try or risk.
  • risk (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).
  • take a risk (idiomatic) To do something risky.
  • take one's chance (idiomatic) To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed.

adventure — full definition

  1. noun An exciting or unusual experience, often involving some risk or the unknown.
  2. verb To take a risk by venturing into something uncertain.

chance — full definition

  1. noun An opportunity to do something.
  2. noun The likelihood of something happening; probability.
  3. noun Something that happens randomly, without any apparent cause or plan.
  4. verb To risk doing something, accepting that it might go wrong.
  5. verb To happen to do or encounter something without planning it.

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