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altfel
differently /altˈfel/
adverb#582 most common
Also: otherwise, or else, in another way
Example sentences
Astăzi este altfel.
Today is different.
Grăbește-te, altfel întârziem.
Hurry up, otherwise we'll be late.
Ea vede lucrurile altfel decât noi.
She sees things differently than we do.
Nu știu cum altfel să-ți explic.
I don't know how else to explain it to you.
Dacă ar fi procedat altfel, situația s-ar fi rezolvat mai repede.
If he had acted differently, the situation would have been resolved faster.
Oricât de mult și-ar dori să pară altfel, obiceiurile lui nu s-au schimbat deloc.
No matter how much he wishes to seem different, his habits haven't changed at all.
Word family
altotherfelkind, way, sortaltcinevasomeone elsealtundevasomewhere else
altcumvasomehow, in some other way
Etymology
Altfel is a compound of alt, meaning "other", and fel, meaning "kind" or "way". Alt descends from Latin alter. Fel is a loanword from Hungarian fél. Fused together, the two pieces mean literally "of another kind", which shifted to the everyday senses "differently" and, in conditional clauses, "otherwise".
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