Adjektiv

absehbar

foreseeable, predictable, manageable

Die Folgen sind noch nicht absehbar.

The consequences are not yet foreseeable.

Das Projekt ist in absehbarer Zeit fertig.

The project will be finished in the foreseeable future.

used as an adjective ((...)) ((to be)) to be foreseeable The consequences are foreseeable.

Synonyms: vorhersehbar, vorausschaubar; Antonyms: unabsehbar, unvorhersehbar

From 'ab-' (off, away) + 'sehen' (to see) + '-bar' (-able). Literally 'see-off-able', meaning something you can see from a distance or into the future.

Think of being able to 'see' (sehen) something 'off' (ab) in the distance. If you can see it from afar, it's 'foreseeable'.

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