Comment by rob74

Politics aside, as a non-native speaker this makes me think of the word "likely". If you use it, just how likely is the event that you apply it to? Is it equivalent to "probably", or to "possibly"? In German we have "wahrscheinlich", which is the same as "probably" (and "Wahrscheinlichkeit", "probability" and "likelihood" are synonyms), so that would mean "likely" is the same as "probably"?