else

adjective · adverb · conjunctionA1

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Tính từ

adjective

1.
(not comparable, postpositional)(postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.
When all else fails, read the instructions.

Trạng từ

adverb

1.
(not comparable)(usually follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.
How else (= in what other way) can it be done?
I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?

conjunction

1.
For otherwise; or else.
Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.

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Đồng nghĩa

otherwise

Cùng gốc / liên quan

what else is newandifnotorthen

Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.

Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (other, otherwise, different), from *alljas, from Proto-Germanic *aljas (of another, of something else), genitive of *aljaz (other), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (other).