fortunately

English

Etymology

From fortunate +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːt͡ʃənɪtli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃənɪtli/, /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnɪtli/, [ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnɪʔli]
• (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃənətli/, /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnətli/, [ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnəʔli]

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: for‧tu‧nate‧ly

Adverb

fortunately (comparative more fortunately, superlative most fortunately)

1. In a fortunate manner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.

   Fortunately for Sam, his pet hamster was alive.

   • 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:

     […] the best thing to do is to curl up with a good goose-flesher and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called Murder at Greystone Grange.

   • 1952, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 807:

     Fortunately — very fortunately — the American people have a happy alternative to this bankrupt Republican campaign and its captive candidate.

   • 2005, Gregory P. Whyte, Mark Harries, Clyde Williams, ABC of sports and exercise medicine, page 4:

     Most pitchside medical staff fortunately will never have to treat a life threatening injury on the field of play.

   • 2015 September 10, Lynn Zinser, “At Hawaii Resort, Yoga by Day, Party by Night”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Fortunately for the noncampers, half of the hotel rooms overlook the seaside stage, making attendance almost automatic, and very convenient in bad weather.

Synonyms

• (in a fortunate manner): auspiciously, luckily
• (it is fortunate that): happily, luckily, mercifully, thankfully, mercifully.

Translations

in a fortunate manner

• Armenian: բարեբախտաբար (hy) (barebaxtabar)
• Belarusian: уда́чна (udáčna), уда́ла (udála), шчаслі́ва (ščaslíva), паспяхо́ва (paspjaxóva)
• Bulgarian: щастливо (bg) (štastlivo), сполучливо (bg) (spolučlivo)
• Catalan: afortunadament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幸得 (zh) (xìngdé)

• Czech: naštěstí (cs)
• Dutch: gelukkig (nl), gelukkigerwijs (nl)
• Esperanto: feliĉe
• Finnish: onnekkaasti (fi)
• French: heureusement (fr)
• Georgian: საბედნიეროდ (sabednierod)
• German: mit Glück, glücklich (de)
• Greek: ευτυχώς (el) (eftychós)
• Hungarian: szerencsésen (hu)
• Italian: fortunatamente (it)
• Maori: māringanui (interjection)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heldigvis (no)

  Nynorsk: heldigvis

• Persian: خوشبختانه (fa) (xošbaxtâne)
• Polish: szczęśliwie (pl)
• Portuguese: afortunadamente
• Russian: уда́чно (ru) (udáčno), счастли́во (ru) (sčastlívo), успе́шно (ru) (uspéšno)
• Serbo-Croatian: nasreću
• Spanish: afortunadamente (es)
• Swedish: lyckligtvis (sv)
• Ukrainian: вда́ло (uk) (vdálo), уда́тно (udátno), щасли́во (uk) (ščaslývo), успі́шно (uspíšno)

it is fortunate that

• Arabic: لِحُسْن اَلْحَظّ (li-ḥusn al-ḥaẓẓ)
• Armenian: բարեբախտաբար (hy) (barebaxtabar)
• Azerbaijani: xoşbəxtlikdən
• Belarusian: на шча́сце (na ščáscje)
• Bulgarian: за щастие (za štastie)
• Catalan: feliçment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幸好 (zh) (xìnghǎo)

• Czech: naštěstí (cs)
• Danish: heldigvis (da)
• Dutch: gelukkig (nl), gelukkigerwijs (nl)
• Finnish: onneksi (fi)
• French: heureusement (fr), par bonheur (fr), par chance (fr)
• Georgian: საბედნიეროდ (sabednierod)
• German: zum Glück (de); Gott sei Dank (de) (chiefly colloquial); glücklicherweise (de) (chiefly formal)
• Greek: ευτυχώς (el) (eftychós), για καλή μου τύχη (gia kalí mou týchi)
• Hungarian: szerencsére (hu)
• Indonesian: untungnya (id)
• Interlingua: fortunatemente
• Italian: per fortuna, fortunatamente (it)
• Japanese: 幸運にも (ja) (こううんにも, kōun nimo)
• Korean: 다행스럽게도 (dahaengseureopgedo), 운 좋게도 (un jokedo)
• Latin: feliciter
• Latvian: par laimi
• Lithuanian: laimei (lt)
• Maori: maringanui, māringanui, mokori anō
• Norman: par bounheur (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heldigvis (no)

• Persian: خوشبختانه (fa) (xošbaxtâne)
• Polish: na szczęście (pl)
• Portuguese: felizmente (pt)
• Romanian: din fericire
• Russian: к сча́стью (ru) (k sčástʹju)
• Slovak: našťastie
• Spanish: dichosamente (es), afortunadamente (es), por suerte
• Swedish: lyckligtvis (sv), som tur är
• Tagalog: sa kabutihang palad
• Turkish: neyse ki, Allah'tan (tr), çok şükür, iyi ki
• Ukrainian: на ща́стя (na ščástja)