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or¹ conjuncție

1. sau, ori;

I’ll give him a novel or a short story îi voi da un roman sau o nuvelă;

or else altfel, altminteri; dacă nu;

study or else you'll fail învaţă, altfel n-ai să reuşeşti;

either ...or sau, ori ... ori, fie ... fie;

either one or the other sau unul sau celălalt, ori unul ori celălalt;

whether ...or dacă ... sau;

I did not know whether he wanted me to go or to stay nu ştiam dacă vrea ca eu să plec sau să rămân.

2. (în propoziţii negative) nici;

he could not read or write nu ştie (nici) să citească, nici să scrie;

either ...or nici ... nici;

he could not either read or write nu ştia (nici) să citească, nici să scrie.

3. sau, ori;

in a day or two într-o zi -două;

a mile or so cam o milă, în jur de o milă;

it will cost you ten or twelve shillings o să te coste între zece şi doisprezece şilingi.

or² (înv. poetic) conjuncție

înainte ca, înainte de a, până la; înaintea (cu gen.).

or³ substantiv

(herald.) culoare aurie sau galbenă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

To this, and so close to the neck that the dog could not get his teeth to it, he had tied a stout stick four or five feet in length.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

This explanation of deficiencies or abnormalities you will kindly accept.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“Yes; but you must get up behind, or my horses will not be able to draw you.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns from her drive at seven.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One or other would certainly get me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"That is very strange," said Dorothy, "but we must try, in some way, to see him, or we shall have made our journey for nothing."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Boy Jim had never known a father or a mother, and his whole life had been spent with his uncle, Champion Harrison.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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