sinon
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Contraction of Middle French si non. Compare Catalan sinó, Portuguese senão.
Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
sinon
- except, apart from
- Je ne sais pas grand-chose, sinon que je t’aime.
- I don't know much, except that I love you.
- if not
- Même si je perdais la plupart de mes livres, il m’en resterait au moins une centaine, sinon plus.
- Even if I lost most of my books, I would still have at least a hundred, if not more.
- otherwise, or else
Further reading[edit]
- “sinon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Mauritian Creole[edit]
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sinon
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Spanish[edit]
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