Saying "or" as in "if you don't....."
I must hurry or I'll be late.
我得快点或我要迟到了。
Is this right? How do you say "or" here?
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我得快点，要不然就迟到了。
that means:
i must hurry,otherwise i will be late. it is not a choice between A or B, but means if i don't do A, then B will happen.in Chinese,you can say 要不然，否则，不然的话。
now have you got it?
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我得快点否则我就迟到了 我得快点不然我就迟到了
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我得快点，不然我就要迟到了。
我得快点，要不然我就要迟到了。
我得快点，否则我就要迟到了。
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Leo is right.
English and Mandarin are two very different languages. Sometime, word-by-word translation does not work at all.
For example:
Speaker A: 你真是一位英国绅士呀！
Speaker B: 哪里哪里。
How can you translate it?
Be "where where"? It does not make any sense.
I think there might be no translation at all here.
Possible response in English is "Thank you.", which is not a translation at all.
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我得快点,否则我要迟到了.
我得快点,不然我就要迟到了.
我得快点,要不我就迟到了.
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