English-Finnish translations for by accident

• sattumalta
  Jos haluamme, se ei toteudu sattumalta. If we do, it will not happen by accident.
  Mitään edellä mainituista ei kuitenkaan tapahtunut sattumalta. However, none of this happened by accident.
  On riittävästi syitä ajatella, ettei tämä tapahtunut sattumalta vaan suunnitellusti. There is reason enough to think that this was not by accident, but by design.
• vahingossa
  Tämä ei tapahtunut vahingossa, vaan oli osa tarkkaan valmisteltua poliittista ja hallinnollista suunnitelmaa. This did not happen by accident: it was part of a strategic political and administrative plan.
  Jos irlantilaiset sattuvat vahingossa äänestämään jotain muuta kuin "kyllä", niin heidän "ei"ääntään ei yksinkertaisesti oteta huomioon. We already know, however, that if, by accident, they were not to vote 'yes', their 'no' vote will simply be discounted.
  Varsinkin lapset saattavat vahingossa laukaista räjähtämättömiä laitteita ja haavoittua vakavasti. Above all, children are in danger of setting off unexploded devices by accident, and they can receive serious injuries from doing so.

Definition of by accident

• Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or designed by one's will
• As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors
• By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events
• Accidental; as the result of some unforeseen happening or series of events; unexpected; resulting from an event without the foresight, expectation, aid, or design of the person by whose agency it was caused; unintentional

Examples

• Sorry. I knocked over the vase by accident.
• The car got totaled by accident; a giant snowdrift fell off the church roof.
• The only way that project still exists today is by accident; I thought we closed it years ago.
• The scholar thinks the quote and the parable were spoken on different occasions and only by accident were brought together here.
• I hadnt seen her for years, but I ran into her by accident at the store.
• She overheard the information by accident.
• The victims death was by accident
• That the injury was by accident is not questioned

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