It is unfortunately true.
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Unfortunately
//ʌnˈfɔː.tjʊ.nət.li//
Synonyms for "unfortunately" (39 found)
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Related words (19)
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1 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
115 translations across 68 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- للأسف adv (happening through bad luck)
- للأسف adv (happening through bad luck)
- لِسُوءِ الْحَظِّ adv (happening through bad luck)
- لِلْأَسَف adv (happening through bad luck)
Armenian
1 entries- դժբախտաբար adv (happening through bad luck)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təəssüf ki adv (happening through bad luck)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡыҙғанысҡа ҡаршы adv (happening through bad luck)
Belarusian
1 entries- на жа́ль adv (happening through bad luck)
Bulgarian
1 entries- за жа́лост adv (happening through bad luck)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- жаль adv (happening through bad luck)
Catalan
4 entries- desgraciadament adv (happening through bad luck)
- dissortadament adv (happening through bad luck)
- malastrugament adv (happening through bad luck)
- malauradament adv (happening through bad luck)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بەداخەوە adv (happening through bad luck)
Chichewa
1 entries- mwatsoka adv (happening through bad luck)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 不巧 adv (happening through bad luck)
- 不幸的 adv (happening through bad luck)
- 可惜 adv (happening through bad luck)
Czech
1 entries- bohužel adv (happening through bad luck)
Danish
2 entries- desværre adv (happening through bad luck)
- uheldigvis adv (happening through bad luck)
Dutch
3 entries- helaas adv (happening through bad luck)
- jammer genoeg adv (happening through bad luck)
- spijtig genoeg adv (happening through bad luck)
Elfdalian
1 entries- dyöswerra adv (happening through bad luck)
Esperanto
2 entries- bedaŭrinde adv (happening through bad luck)
- malfeliĉe adv (happening through bad luck)
Estonian
1 entries- kahjuks adv (happening through bad luck)
Faroese
1 entries- tíverri adv (happening through bad luck)
Finnish
3 entries- harmillista kyllä adv (happening through bad luck)
- ikävä kyllä adv (happening through bad luck)
- valitettavasti adv (happening through bad luck)
French
2 entries- malencontreusement adv (happening through bad luck)
- malheureusement adv (happening through bad luck)
Galician
1 entries- desafortunadamente adv (happening through bad luck)
Georgian
2 entries- სამწუხაროდ adv (happening through bad luck)
- საუბედუროდ adv (happening through bad luck)
German
3 entries- bedauerlicherweise adv (happening through bad luck)
- leider adv (happening through bad luck)
- unglücklicherweise adv (happening through bad luck)
Greek
1 entries- δυστυχώς adv (happening through bad luck)
Greenlandic
1 entries- ajoraluartumik adv (happening through bad luck)
Hebrew
1 entries- לְמַרְבֵּה הַצַּעַר לְצַעֲר־ adv (happening through bad luck)
Hindi
2 entries- दुर्भाग्य से adv (happening through bad luck)
- दुर्भाग्यवश adv (happening through bad luck)
Hungarian
1 entries- sajnos adv (happening through bad luck)
Icelandic
1 entries- því miður adv (happening through bad luck)
Ido
1 entries- regretinde adv (happening through bad luck)
Indonesian
1 entries- sayangnya adv (happening through bad luck)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- بَدْبَخْتانِه adv (happening through bad luck)
- مُتَأَسِّفانِه adv (happening through bad luck)
Italian
3 entries- malauguratamente adv (happening through bad luck)
- purtroppo adv (happening through bad luck)
- sfortunatamente adv (happening through bad luck)
Japanese
2 entries- 残念ながら adv (happening through bad luck)
- 生憎 adv (happening through bad luck)
Korean
2 entries- 불행하게도 adv (happening through bad luck)
- 유감스럽게도 adv (happening through bad luck)
Latin
2 entries- improsperē adv (happening through bad luck)
- infeliciter adv (happening through bad luck)
Latvian
2 entries- diemžēl adv (happening through bad luck)
- par nelaimi adv (happening through bad luck)
Lithuanian
1 entries- deja adv (happening through bad luck)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- leider adv (happening through bad luck)
Macedonian
1 entries- за жал adv (happening through bad luck)
Maltese
1 entries- sfortunatament adv (happening through bad luck)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mixabin adv (happening through bad luck)
Northern Sami
1 entries- dađibahábut adv (happening through bad luck)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- beklageligvis adv (happening through bad luck)
- dessverre adv (happening through bad luck)
- uheldigvis adv (happening through bad luck)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- dessverre adv (happening through bad luck)
- uheldigvis adv (happening through bad luck)
Occitan
1 entries- malaürosament adv (happening through bad luck)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- на нєщесце adv (happening through bad luck)
- нажаль adv (happening through bad luck)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- leida adv (happening through bad luck)
Polish
1 entries- niestety adv (happening through bad luck)
Portuguese
1 entries- infelizmente adv (happening through bad luck)
Romanian
2 entries- din nefericire adv (happening through bad luck)
- din păcate adv (happening through bad luck)
Romansch
2 entries- deplorablamain adv (happening through bad luck)
- displaschaivlamain adv (happening through bad luck)
Russian
2 entries- к несча́стью adv (happening through bad luck)
- к сожале́нию adv (happening through bad luck)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nȁžalōst adv (happening through bad luck)
- на̏жало̄ст adv (happening through bad luck)
Slovak
1 entries- bohužiaľ adv (happening through bad luck)
Slovene
1 entries- na žalost adv (happening through bad luck)
Spanish
4 entries- desafortunadamente adv (happening through bad luck)
- desgraciadamente adv (happening through bad luck)
- infortunadamente adv (happening through bad luck)
- lamentablemente adv (happening through bad luck)
Swedish
3 entries- dessvärre adv (happening through bad luck)
- olyckligtvis adv (happening through bad luck)
- tyvärr adv (happening through bad luck)
Tagalog
2 entries- sa kasamaang-palad adv (happening through bad luck)
- sa kasawiang-palad adv (happening through bad luck)
Turkish
4 entries- heyhat ki adv (happening through bad luck)
- maalesef adv (happening through bad luck)
- maatteessüf adv (happening through bad luck)
- ne yazık ki adv (happening through bad luck)
Ukrainian
1 entries- на жа́ль adv (happening through bad luck)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- bohužel adv (happening through bad luck)
- nažel adv (happening through bad luck)
Urdu
1 entries- بَد قِسْمَتی سے adv (happening through bad luck)
Uzbek
1 entries- afsuski adv (happening through bad luck)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tiếc là adv (happening through bad luck)
- tiếc rằng adv (happening through bad luck)
Volapük
1 entries- neläbo adv (happening through bad luck)
Welsh
1 entries- yn anffodus adv (happening through bad luck)
Zazaki
1 entries- çı heyfo ki adv (happening through bad luck)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Unfortunately, the telephone was out of order.
Source: tatoeba (26622)
The bad news is unfortunately true.
Source: tatoeba (49683)
Unfortunately he refused to come.
Source: tatoeba (71934)
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