Taiwan Lounge

不然

bù rán

B1 Level 5 ★ Core word
Conjunction

Definition

  1. not so
  2. no
  3. or else
  4. otherwise
  5. if not
  6. How about ...?

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Example

快走吧，不然就趕不上火車了。

Let's go now, otherwise we'll miss the train.

Related words at this level

不敢當不可思議不滿不明部屬部位不知不覺不止

Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).