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# fortunately

«fortunately» in Mova's school dictionary: **happily, because something lucky has happened:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Fortunately means happily, because something lucky has happened: Fortunately, it did not rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fortunately/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, it introduces a lucky turn of events: fortunately the dwarfs came home in time

### examples

- Fortunately, it was near evening, and the dwarfs came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fortunately/#x1)
- Fortunately, the rain stopped before the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fortunately/#x2)
- I forgot my coat, but fortunately I was not cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fortunately/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fortunately» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fortunately/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.