Translation
besides, moreover; by the way, incidentally
Examples
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By the way, I have already spoken with him.
, multekosta.
It is a bad plan, and besides too expensive.
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For the rest everything was in order.
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He did not come, and besides nobody was waiting for him.
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By the way, what do you intend to do tomorrow?
opens a sentence when you are adding an afterthought, and it covers both by the way and besides depending on how much weight the afterthought carries. The related adjective cetera means remaining, and the fixed phrase ceteraj is the rest of them. is the Esperanto and so on, usually abbreviated ktp - a useful thing to recognise in written text, where it appears constantly.
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