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# unintentionally

«unintentionally» in Mova's school dictionary: **If you do something unintentionally, you do it by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (unintentionally)

### meaning for a pupil

If you do something unintentionally, you do it by accident, not on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintentionally/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a hero hurts someone without meaning to, and then says sorry or asks to be forgiven

### examples

- I broke the vase unintentionally when I reached for the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintentionally/#x1)
- He said sorry because he had unintentionally hurt her feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintentionally/#x2)
- The cat unintentionally knocked the milk over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unintentionally/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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