English-Finnish translations for by chance

• sattumalta
  Historia ei kehity sattumalta. History does not develop by chance.
  Tapahtumat tallentuivat sattumalta filmille. By chance, the events were recorded on film.
  Minun on myös sanottava, että se ei ole tapahtunut sattumalta. And I must say that this has not happened by chance.
• sattumoisin
  Samoin Stephen Dorell myönsi vuonna 1996 BSE:n tartuntamahdollisuuden ihmiseen sattumoisin juuri silloin, kun amerikkalainen hormoniliha oli päivän puheenaiheena! It was also by chance that Stephen Dorrell admitted in 1996 that BSE could be passed on to humans, at the exact time when there was the scandal of US hormone-treated beef.
  En pidä tästä aloitteesta, joka on sattumoisin kahden suurimman poliittisen ryhmän yhteisymmärryksen tulos ja joka sattumalta esitetään Euroopan parlamentin vaaleja edeltävänä vuonna. I do not like this initiative, which is a product of an agreement between two political groups, by chance the two largest, and which happens to come along the year before the European elections.

Definition of by chance

• Unexpectedly, accidentally; without foreplanning
• Possibly; perhaps

Examples

• I stumbled across the exit by chance.
• Are you by chance looking for the exit?

Related words

• baby change
• baby changing table
• by any chance
• change the baby
• Morfa Bychan
• Pentre Bychan