ぐうぜん
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity
Adverb
2. by chance; unexpectedly; accidentally
Noun
Philosophy
3. contingency
Kanji used
occasional
sort of thing
Pitch accent
うぜん
Top 1200
Composed of
even number; even; spouse; mate
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Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
contingency; fortuity; randomness; unpredictability; haphazardry
by chance; coincidentally; as it happens
Examples (65 in total)
What a coincidence!
It was a chance meeting.
I met her by accident.
I met him by chance.
It happened completely by accident.
I chanced to be working there.
That discovery was quite accidental.
The explosion came about by accident.
Is that just a coincidence?
By chance, I found a hot spring.
I found that restaurant by accident.
The invention was brought about by chance.
I came to Liverpool by chance.
It was a mere chance that I found it.
I met her on the street by accident.
By chance, I met your brother on the street.
Our meeting was purely accidental.
It was pure accident that I came to know her.
I met her by chance on a train.
He found his lost camera by chance.
I ran into a friend on the bus.
I ran across my uncle at the station.
He overheard the conversation by accident.
I ran into my aunt by chance in Europe.
I ran into Mary at a party last week.
By chance, I met her in the street.
I met her by accident at the bus stop.
The war didn't break out by accident.
I ran into an old friend at Tokyo Station.
I met Jane in the department store by chance.
We happened to see a truck run into the guard-rail.
While staying in Paris, I happened to meet him.
By chance I met my ex-girlfriend in Portugal.
I met him by chance on the train this morning.
He met Sam purely by chance.
We met them by accident at the bus terminal.
At Narita Airport, I ran into an old friend of mine.
That we met in Paris was a fortunate accident.
It was entirely by chance that I found out what he was doing.
I happened across an old friend in the street.
Yesterday I ran across her at the station.
He met his English teacher at the station by accident.
I came across him on the train.
I happened to run into my teacher at the restaurant last night.
I unexpectedly ran into him at the airport yesterday.
I ran into a friend while walking in Ginza.
He chanced on a rare book at a second-hand bookstore.
I met her by chance at a restaurant yesterday.
Nancy ran across an old friend of hers yesterday.
He came across this old coin in an antique shop.
I ran into your mother in the library.
I ran across an old classmate on my way here.
He met a mysterious man by chance while taking a walk.
It chanced that we were both traveling on the same train.
As soon as I left home, I came across her in the street.
On my way to work, I ran into my uncle.
I ran into an old classmate of mine on my way to the station.
It was sheer coincidence that Mary and I were on the same train.
By chance we saw him as he came out of the shop.
She ran across her old friend while walking in the park.
When the earthquake occurred, I happened to be watching TV.
When I was in New York, I happened to meet my old friend.
It wasn't simply by coincidence that Tom and Mary both happened to be there.
Such things often happen by accident rather than by design.
It is no accident that she won the first prize.