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# sadly

«sadly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a sad way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (sadly; more sadly, most sadly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a sad way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#m1)

2) Unfortunately; it is sad that... (at the start of a sentence). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#m2)

3) Very much, badly: sadly mistaken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows how someone speaks or acts. As a sentence opener it gives bad news gently. In euphemisms: «sadly, Grandpa passed away». Phrases: sadly missed, sadly mistaken.

### examples

- The dog looked sadly at the empty bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x1)
- Sadly, the match was cancelled because of rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x2)
- «I have to go home,» she said sadly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x3)
- Sadly, our hamster died last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x4)
- You are sadly mistaken if you think that is easy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x5)
- He will be sadly missed by everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x6)
- The King shook his head sadly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sadly/#x7)

### note

Formed from sad + -ly. «Sadly, ...» at the start of a sentence is about the speaker's feeling about the news, not about how something was done.

### In the corpora

- [Sadly, more than a quarter of parrot kinds are threatened, mainly by forest loss and by people catching them as pets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/7/)
- [They jump about like mad things while explaining, then suddenly sit down sadly and quietly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/2/)
- [Toad thinks a long time and then says sadly: «You have conquered, my friends...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/11/)
- [Some fronted adverbials show the speaker's opinion, like Frankly, Luckily and Sadly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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