Complete Definition of "by the way"

English

Adverb
en-adv|pos=by the way|-

  1. idiom incidentally|Incidentally; not central or crucial to the topic at hand.

#:His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and by the way, she volunteered to bring dessert.

Translations
trans-top|Incidentally
Danish: for resten
Dutch: trouwens
Finnish: muuten
French: soit dit en passant (at beginning of a sentence: à propos, au fait)
German: übrigens
Hungarian: egyébként
Irish: dáil|dála an#Irish|an scéal|scéil
Italian: a proposito
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Japanese: ���� (tokoro de)
Latin: etenim
Latvian: starp citu
Norwegian: forresten
Portuguese: aliás, a propósito
Romanian: apropo
Russian: к��а�и (kstáti)
Spanish: dicho sea de paso, de paso, por cierto
Swedish: förresten
Telugu: �న�న���� (annaTTu)
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Category:English prepositional phrases

fr:by the way
fi:by the way

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