ぐうぜん – Vocabulary details

ぐうぜん

Meanings

Adjective (な)

Adjective (の)

Noun

1. coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity

あの時ときあの場ば所しょにいたのは偶ぐう然ぜんだ。It was a coincidence that I was at that place at that time.

Adverb

2. by chance; unexpectedly; accidentally

偶ぐう然ぜん、手てに入いれたのだよ。I got it by chance.

Noun

Philosophy

3. contingency

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

ぐ

うぜん

Used in: 92

Composed of

ぐう

even number; even; spouse; mate

ぜん

-like

Used in vocabulary (4 in total)

ぐうぜんにも

by chance; coincidentally; as it happens

ぐうぜんのいっち

coincidence

ぐうぜんせい

contingency; fortuity; randomness; unpredictability; haphazardry

ぐうぜんろん

casualism; accidentalism

Examples (84 in total)

ぐうぜんだね！

What a coincidence!

本ほん当とうにぐうぜんだったのか。

Was it really a coincidence?

ぐうぜん、手てに入いれたのだよ。

I got it by chance.