else
Otherwise, if notOtherwise, if not.
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Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)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?
sonst, anders, andernfalls
ина́чеináče
Examples
5638 sentencesThere isn't anywhere else to park.
Більше нема де припаркуватися. — deniko
ruБольше припарковать негде. — Hellerick
deMan kann sonst nirgendwo parken. — Tamy
Is there anything else you'd like?
Бажаєш щось ще? — deniko
ruТы хотел бы чего-нибудь еще? — sharptoothed
deHaben Sie noch andere Wünsche? — boscowitch
Go find something else to do.
Іди, знайди собі іншу справу. — older
ruИди найди себе какое-нибудь другое занятие. — odexed
deSuch dir eine andere Beschäftigung! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Did Tom talk to anyone else?
Том говорив з кимось ще? — deniko
ruТом говорил еще с кем-нибудь? — sharptoothed
deHat Tom sonst noch mit jemandem gesprochen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I just sell newspapers, nothing else.
Я продаю лише газети, і нічого більше. — deniko
ruЯ просто продаю газеты, ничего больше. — odexed
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), fFrom Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas, from Proto-Germanic *aljas (“of another, of something else”), genitive of *aljaz (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (“other”).
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Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsCollocations
12 patterns- anything else
- someone else
- anyone else
- something else
- no one else
- anybody else
- somewhere else
- than anyone else
- everyone else
- somebody else
- everybody else
- what else do
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.