No. 951 in Dutch
kennelijk
Clearly apparent; evidently.
In a sentence
Kennelijk heeft hij het antwoord niet begrepen.
Apparently, he did not understand the answer.
The word 'kennelijk' implies the speaker's inference based on evidence or observation, suggesting a conclusion that something appears to be true.
Het is kennelijk moeilijk om dit probleem op te lossen.
It is evidently difficult to solve this problem.
The word 'kennelijk' is used to express the speaker's awareness of the obvious difficulty of solving the problem, based on the presented information.
Ze waren laat; kennelijk hadden ze problemen onderweg.
They were late; apparently, they had problems on the way.
Here, 'kennelijk' indicates the speaker's deduction about the reason for their tardiness, inferred from the situation.
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