否则

否則traditional

HSK 4#1416 by frequencyradical 口

fǒu zé["c"]

otherwise; if not; or (else)

Examples

快一点，否则你会迟到。

Hurry up, or you will be late.

快一点，否则就要迟到了。

Hurry up or we'll be late.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.