不然 (bùrán) means Otherwise (else). Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
多穿点， 不然 会感冒。
Duō chuān diǎn, bùrán huì gǎnmào.
Wear more, otherwise you will catch a cold.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 不然
快走吧， 不然 就迟到了。
Kuài zǒu ba, bùrán jiù chídào le.
Let us hurry, otherwise we will be late.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 不然
幸亏带了伞， 不然 就淋湿了。
Xìngkuī dài le sǎn, bùrán jiù lín shī le.
Luckily I brought an umbrella, or I would have got soaked.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 幸亏
幸好我做了备份， 不然 稿子就全丢了。
Xìnghǎo wǒ zuò le bèifèn, bùrán gǎozi jiù quán diū le.
Luckily I had made a backup, or the whole draft would have been lost.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 备份
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Questions about 不然
How is 不然 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 不然 (bùrán, "Otherwise (else)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 不然 an HSK word?
Yes — 不然 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 不然?
The dictionary page for 不然 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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