remain to be seen

English

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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.

   It remains to be seen whether he will win the election.

   • 2013 January 18, Howard Kurtz, “A loss for Lance, a win for Oprah”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Then came the leak (to the AP) that [Lance Armstrong] had in fact told Oprah he'd been a doper. So all that remained to be seen were what words Armstrong would use and what demeanor he would display.

   • 2024 January 13, Callum Matthews, “Newcastle United 2-3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     It remains to be seen if goalkeeper Ederson will be available for those games after he was forced off in the eighth minute following a collision with City full-back Walker and Sean Longstaff that saw Newcastle have a goal disallowed for offside.

Translations

be as yet unknown

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 還有待觀察／还有待观察 (hái yǒudài guānchá)

• Dutch: valt nog af te wachten
• Finnish: jäädä nähtäväksi
• French: rester à voir, rester à savoir
• German: zeigen (de) (reflexive), abzuwarten bleiben
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenstå å se

• Polish: to się jeszcze okaże (lit. that remains to be seen)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: estar por ver, quedar por ver
• Swedish: återstå att se

References

• “remain to be seen”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.