Definitions For Unless

Conjunction

{{en-con}} except, except on a specified condition; if not. : I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise (AmE: raise). If not; {{non-gloss definition, used with counterfactual conditionals.}} Except if; {{non-gloss definition, used with hypothetical conditionals.}}

Antonyms

except on a condition if

Derived terms

precisely unless unlesss unless and until, until and unless

Translations

Afrikaans: tensy Albanian: po të mos Amharic: በስተቀር Arabic: إِلَّا, إِلَّا إِذَا Armenian: եթե չ- Azerbaijani: əgər Bashkir: {{t-needed, ba}} Basque: salbu Belarusian: калі́ не Bengali: {{t-needed, bn}} Bulgarian: освен ако Burmese: မဟုတ်လျှင်, sc=Mymr Catalan: a menys que, llevat que, tret que, fora que Cherokee: {{t-needed, chr}} Chinese: : Cantonese: 除非 (ceoi4 fei1, sc=Hani) : Mandarin: 除非, tr=chúfēi, sc=Hani Czech: dokud ne Danish: medmindre, undtagen {{qual, obsolete}} Dutch: tenzij Esperanto: kondiĉe, alt=kondiĉe ke ... ne Estonian: {{t-needed, et}} Faroese: {{t-needed, fo}} Finnish: ellei, jollei French: à moins que, sauf si Georgian: თუ არ, sc=Geor German: wenn nicht, es sei denn Greek: εκτός αν, sc=Grek, παρά μόνο αν, sc=Grek : Ancient: εἰ μή Gujarati: જ્યાં સુધી Hawaiian: ke ole Hebrew: {{qualifier, formal}} אלמלא, tr=ilmalé, sc=Hebr, אלא אם כן (ela im ken, sc=Hebr) Hindi: जब तक Hungarian: hacsak nem, kivéve ha Icelandic: nema Indonesian: kecuali Irish: mura Italian: a meno che, se non Japanese: もし...でない, なければ (moshi ... de nakereba) Khmer: លុះត្រាតែ (luh traa tae, sc=Khmr) Korean: ...이 아니다, 아니면 Kurdish: : Sorani: مەگەر Latin: nisi Malay: melainkan Malayalam: അല്ലാതെ Maltese: kemm-il darba Maori: māna Mirandese: {{t-needed, mwl}} Mongolian: {{t-needed, mn}} Ngazidja Comorian: illa Norwegian: hvis ikke Novial: exept si Occitan: {{t-needed, oc}} Old English: būtan Pashto: {{t-needed, ps}} Persian: مگر اینکه (magar inke, sc=fa-Arab) Polish: chyba że Portuguese: a menos que, a não ser que Romanian: cu excepția cazului în Russian: е́сли не, ра́зве что Rwanda-Rundi: keretse Serbo-Croatian: osim ako, ukoliko ne, ako ne Sinhalese: නම් මිස, sc=Sinh Slovene: razen če Spanish: a menos que, a no ser que Swedish: såvida ej, såvida inte Tamil: {{t-needed, ta}} Tatar: мәгәр Telugu: తప్ప Thai: เว้นแต่, tr=wêntæ̀, จนกว่า, tr=cnkẁā Turkish: -mezse {{qualifier, verb suffix}} Ukrainian: якщо́ не, хіба що Vietnamese: trừ phi, trừ khi Volapük: {{t-needed, vo}} Welsh: oni Yiddish: סײַדן

Alternative forms

unlesse {{qualifier, obsolete}} unlessen

Etymology

onlesse, from on lesse, from "on a less condition" ("on" became un-).