English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mistaken + -ly.
Pronunciation[edit]
mistakenly (not comparable)
- wrongly, erroneously
- I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
- by accident, by mistake, in error (without intention to do so)
- Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
by accident
- Arabic: خَطَأً (ḵaṭaʔan)
- Azerbaijani: səhvən
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 錯誤地/错误地 (zh) (cuòwù de)
- Finnish: vahingossa (fi), erehdyksessä
- French: par erreur (fr), à tort (fr), sans faire exprès
- German: aus Versehen, versehentlich (de)
- Hungarian: tévedésből
- Italian: erroneamente (it)
- Japanese: 誤って (あやまって, ayamatte)
- Polish: przez pomyłkę
- Portuguese: erradamente, equivocadamente, erroneamente
- Russian: оши́бочно (ru) (ošíbočno), по оши́бке (po ošíbke)
- Spanish: equivocadamente (es), erróneamente (es), erradamente, sin querer (es), por error, por equivocación
- Turkish: yanlışlıkla (tr)
- Urdu: غلطی سے (ġalatī sē)
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