else

Preposition

Preposition else

1. You use else to show that something is not the same one as another thing. <> kuma (wajen tambaya ko magana mara matuƙa, irin su wani, kome, kowa)

   Who else is coming? <> Sai wa kuma zai zo?

   nothing else <> ba kuma wani abu = ba wani abu kuma.

Usage

• Else is used only after words beginning with some-, every-, any-, and no-, after question words, and after much, little, and all.

Synonyms

• besides
• other

Related words

• elsewhere (somewhere or anywhere else <> a wani wuri dabam.)

Adverb

Positive else

Comparative none

Superlative none

1. You use x or else y to say that if x doesn't happen or isn't true, y would happen or would be true.

   They don't want to be here or else they would have come. <> Ba su so su zo, shi ya sa da sun zo.

2. You use or else to say that if something doesn't happen, it will be bad.

   You'd better clean your room, or else. <> Ka fa gyara ɗakin ka fa.

Google translation of else

Wasu, kuma.

1. (adverb) kuma <> else, besides, too, again;