Read Edit View history 不然 bùrán HSK4 otherwise Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不然 bùrán otherwise conjunction or else; if not the case 快点走，不然我们要迟到了。 kuài diǎn zǒu, bùrán wǒmen yào chídào le. Hurry up, or we'll be late. how about conjunction used to propose an alternative or suggestion 不然，我们先吃饭再去看电影？ bùrán, wǒmen xiān chīfàn zài qù kàn diànyǐng? Alternatively, how about we eat first and then go to the movie? not so expression not the case; not like that 其实不然，事情并非你想象的那样。 qíshí bùrán, shìqing bìng fēi nǐ xiǎngxiàng de nàyàng. Actually, that's not the case; things are not as you imagined. Frequency Movie subtitles 79.3 per million appears in 28% of films Written text 35.0 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 4 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不然 bùrán otherwise conjunction or else; if not the case 快点走，不然我们要迟到了。 kuài diǎn zǒu, bùrán wǒmen yào chídào le. Hurry up, or we'll be late. how about conjunction used to propose an alternative or suggestion 不然，我们先吃饭再去看电影？ bùrán, wǒmen xiān chīfàn zài qù kàn diànyǐng? Alternatively, how about we eat first and then go to the movie? not so expression not the case; not like that 其实不然，事情并非你想象的那样。 qíshí bùrán, shìqing bìng fēi nǐ xiǎngxiàng de nàyàng. Actually, that's not the case; things are not as you imagined. Frequency Movie subtitles 79.3 per million appears in 28% of films Written text 35.0 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 4 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)