# else

Pronunciation: say "ELS" /ɛls/

## Adjective

1. Other than the people or things already mentioned; additional to them.
   - Simple: Different from, or added to, the people or things already named.
   - _Everyone else had already left by the time we arrived._
   - _What else should we pack for the trip?_

## Adverb

2. In a different way, place, or time from the one already mentioned, usually following a question word such as how, where, or when.
   - Simple: In another way, place, or time, if not the one mentioned.
   - _If Thursday is out, when else could the team meet before the deadline?_
   - _Where else have you traveled in Europe?_

## Conjunction

3. Otherwise; used to introduce what would happen or be true if the preceding statement were false or instruction ignored.
   - Simple: Used to join two ideas when the second one says what happens or is true if the first is not.
   - _Be sure to water the plants, else they will wither by Sunday._
   - _She must have known the answer already, else she would never have raised her hand so fast._

## Origin

From Middle English elles, from Old English elles ("other, otherwise, different"), from Proto-Germanic *aljas ("of another, of something else"), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- meaning "other." It is related to Latin alius and Ancient Greek állos (both "other").

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