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French
Pronunciation
Adverb
d’aventure
- (literary) by chance
- Synonym: par hasard
1916, Charles Le Goffic, Bourguignottes et pompons rouges, page 117:«Il pleuvait presque sans discontinuer depuis la Toussaint et quand, d’aventure, l’horizon se décrassait, les vents du large opprimaient tout l’espace […]. »- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
Generally follows the subordinating conjunction si (“if”): si d'aventure (“if by any chance”)