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/sof/

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Translation

except, unless

Word origin

From Latin salvus ('safe, unharmed'). As a preposition meaning 'except', it derives from the absolute use salvo ('the thing being safe, excepted').

Origin
Latin
Root
salvus
English cognates
safe, salvage, save

Examples

.

Everyone was there except him.

pleut .

I will come unless it pours with rain.

.

He eats everything except fish and meat.

Tous ' .

All the shops are open except the one across the street.

' .

Nobody understood the joke except my brother.

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This word is part of lesson 11.