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English
Etymology
From inadvertent + -ly.
Adverb
inadvertently (not comparable)
- Unintentionally; because of an oversight.
1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:'Dear me! I may have inadvertently touched the handle,' said he.
2013 November 6, Chris Bevan, “Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:Neven Subotic hooked a volley wide after Ramsey inadvertently headed a Reus free-kick back into the danger zone, and Blaszczykowski was also off target when he met Kevin Grosskreutz's cross.
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unintentionally
- Arabic: (please verify) عَنْ غَيْرِ قَصْدٍ (ʕan ḡayri qaṣdin)
- Bulgarian: по невнимание (po nevnimanie)
- Catalan: inadvertidament (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無意地 / 无意地 (zh) (wúyì de), 不經意間 / 不经意间 (zh) (bùjīngyìjiān)
- Czech: nechtěně
- Dutch: onopzettelijk (nl), (abusievelijk (nl))
- Esperanto: senvole, senintence
- Finnish: tahattomasti (fi)
- French: par inadvertance (fr), par mégarde (fr), par erreur (fr)
- Georgian: უნებლიედ (uneblied), შემთხვევითად (šemtxvevitad), განუზრახველად (ganuzraxvelad), უყურადღებოდ (uq̇uradɣebod), დაუდევრად (daudevrad), დაუფიქრებლად (daupikreblad)
- German: versehentlich (de), irrtümlich (de), unbeabsichtigterweise
- Greek: άθελα (el) (áthela)
- Japanese: うっかり (ja) (ukkari), 何気無く (なにげなく, nanigenaku), 何気に (なにげに, nanige ni)
- Portuguese: sem querer, inadvertidamente, sem intenção
- Russian: неча́янно (ru) (nečájanno), неумы́шленно (ru) (neumýšlenno), ненаро́ком (ru) (nenarókom), случа́йно (ru) (slučájno)
- Slovak: nechtiac, neúmyselne, omylom
- Spanish: sin querer (es)
- Swedish: oavsiktligt (sv)
- Tocharian B: enersäṅk
- Turkish: kazara (tr)
- Ukrainian: ненавми́сне (nenavmýsne), ненавми́сно (nenavmýsno)
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