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Hi there, I would like to know how you use "je crois", "ou autre" and "ou quelque chose". Can you use them as the same way? Are there any differences? Thanks a lot!!
Hi there, I would like to know how you use "je crois", "ou autre" and "ou quelque chose". Can you use them as the same way? Are there any differences? Thanks a lot!!
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"je crois"
- Je crois en Dieu. (belief)
- Je crois que je vais aller au cinéma demain. (hedging)
- Il s'agit d'un panda, je crois. (hedging)
"ou autre" I can't think of any use - can you give an example you have encountered? The closest thing I can think of is "une chose ou l'autre"
- Ça peut poser problème pour un parti ou l'autre. (one or the other)
- D'une chose à l'autre, on en est arrivé là! (from one thing to another)
"ou quelque chose" isn't really an expression. You will encounter it, but as part of something else.
- Il s'agit d'un panda ou quelque chose comme ça. (or something similar)
- C'est pour quelqu'un ou quelque chose de spécial les ballons ? (for someone or something special)
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Thanks! I saw this sentence with the word “ou autre”: Je devrais au moins déposer des fleurs ou autre.
Can you usually hang “ou autre” after any sentence? Like “or something”? So when you are unsure.
Can you usually hang “ou autre” after any sentence? Like “or something”? So when you are unsure.
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ah yes, it's a shortening of "ou quelque chose d'autre" or "ou autre chose" ("des fleurs ou autre [chose]").
It's informal. You can use it more or less anytime, but only where you could also use "ou autre chose", and (I think) only at the end of a sentence...
So you could say "Je vais manger une banane ou autre" (though it's a bit weird - your example sounds better) but you can't say "Je vais aller au marché ou autre"
(I don't think I would ever use it myself - I'm a woman from Belgium. It's possible that it's more common in certain places, or I can imagine that one specific person might use it much more than others. There's nothing wrong with it - it's not rude or anything - but I've just not encountered it very much.)
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