English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "toeval" is die voorkoms van twee of meer gebeurtenisse of omstandighede op dieselfde tyd of op 'n soortgelyke wyse, veral wanneer dit 'n betekenisvolle of betekenisvolle verband blyk te wees. Dit kan ook verwys na 'n merkwaardige sameloop van gebeure of omstandighede sonder oënskynlike oorsaaklike verband.

Sentence Examples

  1. In the present instance, had the gold been gone, the fact of its delivery three days before would have formed something more than a coincidence.
  2. Nothing is talked about here to-day except the strange coincidence the officials of the Board of Trade have been most exacting in seeing that every compliance has been made with existing regulations.
  3. But, when I recovered from this stupor, there dawned upon me gradually a conviction which startled me even far more than the coincidence.
  4. Do you think it was just a coincidence that I got into one?
  5. Was it all a rotten coincidence that had nothing to do with me?
  6. Yet in what, if not in this marvellous train of coincidence, does the accidentally suggested opinion of the populace call upon us to believe?
  7. I say the singularity of this coincidence absolutely stupified me for a time.
  8. The location is too convenient for it to be a coincidence.
  9. He wondered why he was only able to get glimpses of some of the events in his dream, and whether or not they were actually future events, like some sort of premonition, or if it was all just a coincidence.
  10. He knew that it was no coincidence that this creature had, what appeared to be, an implant imbedded in it.