Translation
or
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Examples
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Either now or never.
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Either we shall win or we shall die.
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Choose this or that.
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Either you or he will come.
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We are not after gold or silver.
Latin has two words for "or" and they are not interchangeable. is the exclusive one: the alternatives shut each other out, so one of them must be wrong. offers a free choice where either would do. Doubled as ... it gives English "either ... or", and it joins anything from single words to whole clauses without affecting the case of what follows.
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aut: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 6: aut, hic, enim and 8 more words.