either

konjunktio

  1. jompikumpi kahdesta vaihtoehdosta; joko tämä tai tuo.

    Voit valita joko pizzan tai pastan illalliseksi.

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Sana 'either' on englanninkielinen konjunktio, jota käytetään ilmaisemaan vaihtoehtoa kahden asian tai mahdollisuuden välillä. Se voi esiintyä lauseissa, joissa esitetään valinta, ja se voidaan yhdistää 'or'-sanaan, kuten 'either ... or ...', joka tarkoittaa, että joku voi valita jommankumman vaihtoehdon. 'Either' voi myös toimia korostavana sanana lauseissa, joissa halutaan painottaa valinnan tärkeyttä tai vaihtoehtoisuuden olemassaoloa.

Käännökset

englanti

-kään, myöskään, -kaan Each of two. (defdate)
(w) (1608-1674)

His flowing hair / In curls on either cheek played.
1936, (w), (w), Faber & Faber 2007, page 31:
Her hands, long and beautiful, lay on either side of her face.
One or the other of two. (defdate)
(quote-journal)
puhekieltä (non-gloss definition)

(ux)

(quote-book)|title=http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/34738 The Ivory Gate|chapter=Prologue|passage=Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language(..)his clerks(..)understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
puhekieltä both Both, each of two or more.
(RQ:Mlry MrtArthr), Bk.VII:
Than ayther departed to theire tentis and made hem redy to horsebacke as they thought beste.
(w) (1561-1626)
Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queen), III.i:
And either vowd with all their power and wit, / To let not others honour be defaste(nb..).
(w) (1809-1894)
There have been three talkers in Great British, either of whom would illustrate what I say about dogmatists.
One or other of two people or things.
2013, Daniel Taylor, http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport Danny Welbeck leads Englands rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'', The Guardian, 6 September:
Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
puhekieltä As well.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|chapter=1|passage=But Richmond(..)appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw(..)that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
(n-g).

Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room.

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