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要么

yàome
conjunctionHSK 6

“Or” in Chinese is 要么 (yàome).

Meaning

  • or
  • either one or the other

Example

咱们要么说汉语,要么就别说话。

Let’s either speak Chinese, or not speak at all.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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