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Etymology [ edit ]
incidental + -ly
incidentally (comparative more incidentally , superlative most incidentally )
( manner ) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally .
1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine , number 600 , page 225 :Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally , tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).
By chance; in an unplanned way.
( speech act, conjunctive ) Parenthetically , by the way .
Incidentally , did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
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in an incidental manner
Albanian: kalimthi (sq)
Arabic: صُدْفَةً (ar) ( ṣudfatan )
Armenian: իմիջիայլոց ( imiǰiaylocʻ )
Belarusian: выпадко́ва ( vypadkóva )
Bulgarian: случа́йно (bg) ( slučájno )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 偶然 (zh) ( ǒurán )
Finnish: sivuten (fi) , ohimennen (fi)
French: incidemment (fr)
German: nebenbei (de)
Hungarian: érintőleg , érintőlegesen (hu) , futólag (hu) , mellékesen (hu)
Italian: incidentalmente (it)
Japanese: たまたま (ja) ( tamatama ) , 偶然 (ja) ( ぐうぜん, gūzen )
Korean: 우연히 (ko) ( uyeonhi )
Polish: incydentalnie
Portuguese: incidentalmente
Romanian: apropo (ro)
Russian: случа́йно (ru) ( slučájno )
Scottish Gaelic: eadar dà sgeul
Spanish: incidentalmente (es)
Swedish: apropå (sv) , i förbigående (sv)
Turkish: sırası gelmişken (tr) , bu arada (tr) , bir ara (tr) , lâf arasında
Ukrainian: випадко́во ( vypadkóvo )
without looking for something/somebody
Arabic: عَلَى فِكْرَة ( ʕalā fikra )
Bulgarian: между́ дру́гото ( meždú drúgoto )
Esperanto: parenteze
Finnish: muuten (fi) , sattua (fi) ( verb; "happen to" )
German: apropos (de) , übrigens (de) , im Übrigen (de) , nebenbei gesagt
Hungarian: egyébként (hu) , amúgy (hu) , mellesleg (hu)
Irish: dála an scéil
Italian: per inciso
Polish: nawiasem mówiąc (pl)
Portuguese: a propósito (pt) , aliás (pt)
Russian: кста́ти (ru) ( kstáti ) , ме́жду про́чим (ru) ( méždu próčim )
Spanish: por cierto (es) , a propósito (es)
Ukrainian: до ре́чі ( do réči ) , між і́ншим ( miž ínšym )
Vietnamese: à này
Yiddish: אַגבֿ ( agev )
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