グウゼン
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity
It was a coincidence that I was at that place at that time.
Adverb
2. by chance; unexpectedly; accidentally
I got it by chance.
Noun
Philosophy
3. contingency
Pitch accent
グ
ウゼン
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 (84 in total)
What a coincidence!
Was it really a coincidence?
I got it by chance.
What an unexpected coincidence.
But it was not a coincidence.
It was probably just a combination of coincidences.
It is purely a chance remark.
Even so, what a coincidence.
You probably just happened to pass by.
I met him by chance.
It happened completely by accident.
I chanced to be working there.
Coincidentally enough, I know him.
That discovery was quite accidental.
The explosion came about by accident.
Is that just a coincidence?
By chance, I found a hot spring.
Actually, I met them by chance yesterday.
I found that restaurant by accident.
It may be a coincidence, but it feels inexplicable.
This is not a coincidence but an inevitability.
The invention was brought about by chance.
I came to Liverpool by chance.
It was a mere chance that I found it.
It was a coincidence that I was at that place at that time.
I met him by pure chance.
By chance, I met your brother on the street.
Our meeting was purely accidental.
It was pure accident that I came to know her.
He found his lost camera by chance.
I met her by chance on a train.
I ran into a friend on the bus.
Finding that base was a complete coincidence.
Our meeting was quite accidental.
We approached the two of them, pretending it was a coincidence.
He overheard the conversation by accident.
That happened to be a good move.
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.
While staying in Paris, I happened to meet him.
I met Jane in the department store by chance.
We happened to see a truck run into the guard-rail.
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 heard the news by chance.
I came across him on the train.
I just happened to see you, so I couldn't help myself.
Moreover, although it was by chance, the prince of the neighboring country also came.
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.
It is no accident that she won the first prize.
He came across this old coin in an antique shop.
I ran across an old classmate on my way here.
I ran into your mother in the library.
It was foolish of me to have considered it a coincidence until now.
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 is true that he did it, whether by accident or by design.
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.
She did not just happen to wander into this dangerous area.
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.