sinon
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Contraction of Middle French si non. Compare Catalan sinó, Portuguese senão.
Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
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- 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
Adverb
[edit]sinon
- (colloquial, proscribed) also; additionally; furthermore; anyway
- Synonyms: d'ailleurs, d'autre part
- 2017 March 2, Académie française, Sinon au sens de Par ailleurs, d’autre part[1]:
- On ne dira donc pas, ce que l’on entend hélas trop souvent, il a un bel appartement à Paris, sinon il a aussi une maison en Vendée ; toute sa famille va bien, et, sinon, sa sœur vient de se marier.
- We will not say then, what we, alas, hear too often: he has a beautiful appartment in Paris, he also has a house in the Vendée too; his whole family is well, and, what's more, his sister just got married.
Further reading
[edit]- “sinon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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Related terms
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