unfortunately

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɔː.tjʊ.nət.li/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət.li/
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• General-American: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/
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• General-American: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt.li/
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• General-American: [ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪʔ.li]
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• /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət.li/ General American, weak vowel merger
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• /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nət.li/ General American, weak vowel merger
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• [ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nəʔ.li] General American, weak vowel merger
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 N F AO1 R CH AH0 N AH0 T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: AH0 N F AO1 R CH UW0 N AH0 T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From unfortunate + -ly or un- + fortunately.

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لِلْأَسَف (li-l-ʔasaf) — happening through bad luck
• Arabic: لِسُوءِ الْحَظِّ (lisūʔi l-ḥaẓẓi) — happening through bad luck
• Arabic: للأسف (le-l-ʔasaf) — happening through bad luck
• Arabic: للأسف (li-l-ʔasaf) — happening through bad luck
• Armenian: դժբախտաբար (džbaxtabar) — happening through bad luck
• Azerbaijani: təəssüf ki — happening through bad luck
• Bashkir: ҡыҙғанысҡа ҡаршы (qıźğanısqa qarşı) — happening through bad luck
• Belarusian: на жа́ль (na žálʹ) — happening through bad luck
• Bulgarian: за жа́лост (za žálost) — happening through bad luck
• Carpathian Rusyn: жаль (žalʹ) — happening through bad luck
• Catalan: malauradament — happening through bad luck
• Catalan: desgraciadament — happening through bad luck
• Catalan: malastrugament — happening through bad luck
• Catalan: dissortadament — happening through bad luck
• Chichewa: mwatsoka — happening through bad luck
• Chinese Mandarin: 不幸的 (bùxìng de) — happening through bad luck
• Chinese Mandarin: 不巧 (bùqiǎo) — happening through bad luck
• Chinese Mandarin: 可惜 (kěxí) — happening through bad luck
• Chinese Mandarin: 遺憾的是 /遗憾的是 (yíhàn de shì) — happening through bad luck
• Czech: bohužel — happening through bad luck
• Danish: uheldigvis — happening through bad luck
• Danish: desværre — happening through bad luck
• Dutch: helaas — happening through bad luck
• Dutch: jammer genoeg — happening through bad luck
• Dutch: spijtig genoeg — happening through bad luck
• Elfdalian: dyöswerra — happening through bad luck
• Esperanto: bedaŭrinde — happening through bad luck
• Esperanto: malfeliĉe — happening through bad luck
• Estonian: kahjuks — happening through bad luck
• Faroese: tíverri — happening through bad luck
• Finnish: valitettavasti — happening through bad luck
• Finnish: ikävä kyllä — happening through bad luck
• Finnish: harmillista kyllä — happening through bad luck
• French: malheureusement — happening through bad luck
• French: malencontreusement — happening through bad luck
• Galician: desafortunadamente — happening through bad luck
• Georgian: სამწუხაროდ (samc̣uxarod) — happening through bad luck
• Georgian: საუბედუროდ (saubedurod) — happening through bad luck
• German: leider — happening through bad luck
• German: unglücklicherweise — happening through bad luck
• German: bedauerlicherweise — happening through bad luck
• Greek: δυστυχώς (dystychós) — happening through bad luck
• Greenlandic: ajoraluartumik — happening through bad luck
• Mbya Guarani: teve — happening through bad luck
• Hebrew: לְמַרְבֵּה הַצַּעַר לְצַעֲר־ (l'marbé hatsá'ar) — happening through bad luck
• Hindi: दुर्भाग्यवश (durbhāgyavaś) — happening through bad luck
• Hindi: दुर्भाग्य से (durbhāgya se) — happening through bad luck
• Hungarian: sajnos — happening through bad luck
• Icelandic: því miður — happening through bad luck
• Ido: regretinde — happening through bad luck
• Indonesian: sayangnya — happening through bad luck
• Italian: sfortunatamente — happening through bad luck
• Italian: purtroppo — happening through bad luck
• Italian: malauguratamente — happening through bad luck
• Japanese: 生憎 (ainiku) — happening through bad luck
• Japanese: 残念ながら (zannen-nagara) — happening through bad luck
• Korean: 불행하게도 (bulhaenghagedo) — happening through bad luck
• Korean: 유감스럽게도 (yugamseureopgedo) — happening through bad luck
• Central Kurdish: بەداخەوە (bedaxewe) — happening through bad luck
• Northern Kurdish: mixabin — happening through bad luck
• Latin: infeliciter — happening through bad luck
• Latin: improsperē — happening through bad luck
• Latvian: diemžēl — happening through bad luck
• Latvian: par nelaimi — happening through bad luck
• Lithuanian: deja — happening through bad luck
• Luxembourgish: leider — happening through bad luck
• Macedonian: за жал (za žal) — happening through bad luck
• Maltese: sfortunatament — happening through bad luck
• Norwegian Bokmål: uheldigvis — happening through bad luck
• Norwegian Bokmål: dessverre — happening through bad luck
• Norwegian Bokmål: beklageligvis — happening through bad luck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: uheldigvis — happening through bad luck
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dessverre — happening through bad luck
• Occitan: malaürosament — happening through bad luck
• Pannonian Rusyn: на нєщесце (na nješčesce) — happening through bad luck
• Pannonian Rusyn: нажаль (nažalʹ) — happening through bad luck
• Iranian Persian: مُتَأَسِّفانِه (mota'assefâne) — happening through bad luck
• Iranian Persian: بَدْبَخْتانِه (badbaxtâne) — happening through bad luck
• Plautdietsch: leida — happening through bad luck
• Polish: niestety — happening through bad luck
• Portuguese: infelizmente — happening through bad luck
• Romanian: din păcate — happening through bad luck
• Romanian: din nefericire — happening through bad luck
• Romansh: deplorablamain — happening through bad luck
• Romansh: displaschaivlamain — happening through bad luck
• Russian: к сожале́нию (k sožaléniju) — happening through bad luck
• Russian: к несча́стью (k nesčástʹju) — happening through bad luck
• Northern Sami: dađibahábut — happening through bad luck
• Serbo-Croatian: на̏жало̄ст — happening through bad luck
• Serbo-Croatian: nȁžalōst — happening through bad luck
• Slovak: bohužiaľ — happening through bad luck
• Slovene: na žalost — happening through bad luck
• Upper Sorbian: bohužel — happening through bad luck
• Upper Sorbian: nažel — happening through bad luck
• Spanish: desafortunadamente — happening through bad luck
• Spanish: desgraciadamente — happening through bad luck
• Spanish: lamentablemente — happening through bad luck
• Spanish: por desgracia — happening through bad luck
• Spanish: infortunadamente — happening through bad luck
• Swedish: tyvärr — happening through bad luck
• Swedish: dessvärre — happening through bad luck
• Swedish: olyckligtvis — happening through bad luck
• Tagalog: sa kasamaang-palad — happening through bad luck
• Tagalog: sa kasawiang-palad — happening through bad luck
• Turkish: ne yazık ki — happening through bad luck
• Turkish: maalesef — happening through bad luck
• Turkish: yazık ki — happening through bad luck
• Turkish: heyhat ki — happening through bad luck
• Turkish: maatteessüf — happening through bad luck
• Ukrainian: на жа́ль (na žálʹ) — happening through bad luck
• Urdu: بَد قِسْمَتی سے (bad qismatī se) — happening through bad luck
• Uzbek: afsuski — happening through bad luck
• Vietnamese: tiếc rằng — happening through bad luck
• Vietnamese: tiếc là — happening through bad luck
• Volapük: neläbo — happening through bad luck
• Welsh: yn anffodus — happening through bad luck
• Zazaki: çı heyfo ki — happening through bad luck