Turkish English Dictionary

Türkçe - English

ne yazık ki in English:

1. unfortunately unfortunately


Unfortunately, it rained.
He told me his address, but unfortunately I had no paper to write it down on.
Ah, unfortunately there is a small matter I need to attend to so I'll take my leave now.
She's pure bred blue-blood you see. Unfortunately that's no sort of put-on but her natural self.
We had the the procedures done yesterday but unfortunately, the machine won't be in operation until the engine is replaced.
There are five tragedies in a man's life. Unfortunately, I don't know which ones they are.
I didn't find the book in the library, so I decided to buy it. Unfortunately it was too expensive. However I found it on the Internet.
Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the meeting. I'd love to come, but unfortunately I have to work.
Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.
Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation.
Christopher Columbus was notorious for repeatedly snoozing his alarm clock by hitting it with his fist. Unfortunately, his "alarm clock" was usually his first mate.

2. unluckily


Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.

English word "ne yazık ki"(unluckily) occurs in sets:

body language

3. alas


If the stone fall upon the egg, alas for the egg! If the egg fall upon the stone, alas for the egg!
This alas is the real world.
I love football but, alas, I have no talent as a player.
For many people, alas, hunger is part of everyday life.
alas, my funds have some limitations
but the textbook writer is not, alas, invariably endowed with infinite wisdom.
Mosquito-nets, alas, are indispensable.
Alas, she died young.
Alas, what ill luck has befallen me!
Alas! We are ruined.
Many of our pioneers are still alive... but, alas, many of them aren't alive any more.
Alas.