what if
Adverb
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Adverb
what if (not comparable)
- Used to introduce a suggestion or proposal for a future event.
- What if we arrange it for 9:00 instead of 10:00?
- Used to introduce a speculation about a future event.
- What if we could learn to get along? What would happen then?
- Used to introduce a speculation about a past event. Often the basis for counterfactual historical interpretations.
- What if Abraham Lincoln had not been assassinated? How might the Reconstruction of the Southern States have been handled?
- (introducing a suggestion) how about
- French: et si
- German: was wenn
- Portuguese: e se (with imperfect subjunctive or future subjunctive), que tal (with personal infinitive)
- Spanish: y si
- French: et si
- Portuguese: e se
- French: et si
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