or
strong /ɔːr/ weak /ər/ conjunctionTranslation
BETWEEN POSSIBILITIES › used between possibilities, or before the last in a list of possibilities
veya, yoksa
Would you like toast or cereal? Is that a boy or a girl? You can have beer, wine, or mineral water. The house will take two or three years to complete.1818CHANGE › used to change or correct something you have said
veya, veyahut, ya da
We told the truth, or most of it.1818REASON › used to give a reason for something you have said
yoksa, aksi takdirde/hâlde
She must love him or she wouldn't have stayed with him all these years.1818NOT EITHER › used after a negative verb between a list of things to mean not any of those things or people
veya...de
Tim doesn't eat meat or fish. She doesn't have a telephone or a fax machine.1818(Definition of or conjunction from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
© Cambridge University Press)
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