if

Etymology
From, , , from , from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , "if; whether"; > 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that;
 * If it rains, I shall get wet.
 * I'll do it next year —if at all.
 * 1)  In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).
 * If A, then B, else C.
 * 1) Supposing that;
 * I would prefer it if you took your shoes off.
 * I would be unhappy if you had not talked with me yesterday.
 * If I were you, I wouldn't go there alone.
 * 1) Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that.
 * If that's true, we had better get moving!
 * 1) Although;
 * He was a great friend, if a little stingy at the bar.
 * She won her team's admiration, if not its award, for her performance.
 * 1)  Whether;
 * I don't know if I want to go or not.
 * 1) * 1715–1717,, Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind, Canto III:
 * Quoth Matthew, “ / She doubts if two and two make four, / ”
 * 1)  Even if; even in the circumstances that.
 * 2) * 1837-39,, 
 * “Wait a minute!” said the girl: “I wouldn’t hurry by, if it was you that was coming out to be hung, the next time eight o’clock struck, Bill. I’d walk round and round the place till I dropped, if the snow was on the ground, and I hadn’t a shawl to cover me.”
 * 1) * 2004, and Kim Tribble (writers),  (singers), “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” (song), in You Do Your Thing (album):
 * If it’s the last thing I do / If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu / If it’s the last thing I do / I’m gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop / To get my hands on you / If it’s the last thing I do.
 * I have leftover cake if you want some.
 * 1) * 2004, and Kim Tribble (writers),  (singers), “If It’s The Last Thing I Do” (song), in You Do Your Thing (album):
 * If it’s the last thing I do / If it takes me from Tubilo to Timbuktu / If it’s the last thing I do / I’m gonna dodge every road block, speed trap, county cop / To get my hands on you / If it’s the last thing I do.
 * I have leftover cake if you want some.
 * I have leftover cake if you want some.

Usage notes

 * Specifically a subordinating conjunction.
 * Some usage critics recommend that if not be used to mean whether, since the distinction can remove ambiguity, as in the following example:
 * Tell me if you can see her. (if the addressee can see her, then he or she must let the speaker know)
 * Tell me whether you can see her. (the speaker wants to know which instance is true: either the addressee's ability or inability to see her)


 * This distinction is further encouraged because, traditionally, if cannot always be used in place of whether. For instance, if the noun clause acts as the subject of the sentence or an object of a preposition, the word is usually whether. Examples:
 * We like to talk about whether classical music is better than jazz.
 * Whether you like today’s weather does not matter.


 * Another difference between if and whether is with the use of or not.
 * The sentences I don't know whether or not I passed or I don't know whether I passed or not are both correct
 * The sentence I don't know if I passed or not is correct, but  I don't know if or not I passed  is incorrect

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Ahom: 𑜆𑜦𑜡
 * Akkadian: 𒋳𒈠
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, , إِذَا
 * Egyptian Arabic: اذا, إذا, لو, إن
 * Hijazi Arabic: لو, إذا, إن
 * Moroccan Arabic: كون كان, كُن كان
 * South Levantine Arabic: إذا, لو, إن, إنكنّـ
 * Tunisian Arabic: لو كان
 * Aragonese: si
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܐܢ, ܐܠܘ
 * Jewish Aramaic: אֶן, אִין, אִלּוּ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: disi
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bakhtiari: ار
 * Bashkir: әгәр, әгәр ҙә
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bislama: sapos
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, , ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 要是, 如果
 * Dungan: вәё, зэсы, дан, дансы, зэ
 * Eastern Min: 儷是
 * Hokkien:, ,
 * Mandarin:, , , ...,
 * Chukchi: эвыр, эвыт, эвыръым
 * Chuvash: эхер
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, , dersom, nærmest, snarere
 * Dutch: ,
 * The Hague dialect:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Middle French: si
 * Old French: se
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: თუ
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌾𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: εἰ, ἐάν, ἄν, ἤν
 * Haitian Creole: si
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: jos
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: má,  dá
 * Old Irish: má, dia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ならば, だったら,  ,  ては,  えば
 * Javanese:
 * Kamkata-viri:
 * Kamviri: to
 * Kata-vari: ta
 * Kazakh: егер
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: эгер
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئەگەر
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຖ້າ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lingala: soki
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Lü: ᦅᧃ
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:, , jika, jikalau, , sekiranya
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Maore Comorian: djeli
 * Maori: mēnā
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:, -бал, -вал
 * Navajo: ládą́ą́ʼ
 * Neapolitan: si
 * Northern Sami: jos
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ġif
 * Pashto: که چېرې,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਜੇ
 * Shahmukhi:
 * Rapa Nui: ana
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: sche
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: if, gin
 * Scottish Gaelic: ma, nan,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ако
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Sinhalese: නම්, නං
 * Slovak: ak
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: joli, gaž, gaby, -li
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: upami
 * Swahili: ikiwa,
 * Swedish:
 * Tai Dam: ꪖ꫁ꪱꪫ꪿ꪱ
 * Tai Nüa: ᥗᥪᥒᥴᥝᥣ
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: әгәр
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ན
 * Tocharian B: inte, kwri
 * Tok Pisin: sapos
 * Turkish:, , , , varsayarsak
 * Turkmen: eger
 * Uab Meto: kalu
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: اگر, یدی
 * Uyghur: ئەگەر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Waigali: të
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: os,  pe
 * West Frisian: as, at
 * Wutunhua: -la
 * Yakut: өскө
 * Yiddish: אויב, טאָמער, אַז
 * Yucatec Maya: wa
 * Zazaki: eger,
 * Zealandic: a, as
 * Zhuang: danghnaeuz


 * Bengali:
 * Danish:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: wenn auch
 * Hungarian: ha … is, még ha … is,, , ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ,
 * Polish: tyle że
 * Slovak: aj keď
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: değil ise,


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: إذا
 * Moroccan Arabic: اِلى, إلا
 * Tunisian Arabic: اذا
 * Asturian:
 * Bengali: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (usually not used),
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, hvorvidt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Old French: se
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌾𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: (hogy) (vajon) -e
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: かどうか,
 * Javanese:
 * Macedonian: дали
 * Malay: sama ada
 * Navajo: ládą́ą́ʼ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old English: hwæþer, ġif
 * Pashto: چې که
 * Persian: که آیا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: да ли
 * Roman: da li
 * Slovak: či
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: upami
 * Swedish:
 * Walloon:
 * West Frisian: oft


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: ak


 * Lao: ຜິ

Noun

 * 1)  An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.
 * 2) * 1709, Susannah Centlivre, The Busy Body, Act III, in John Bell (ed.), British Theater, J. Bell (1791), page 59,
 * Sir Fran. Nay, but Chargy, if——— ¶ Miran. Nay, Gardy, no Ifs.——Have I refus'd three northern lords, two British peers, and half a score knights, to have put in your Ifs?

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Bulgarian:, , ако и но
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: oletus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئەگەر
 * Macedonian: услов
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: ak, či
 * Spanish: ,

Etymology
, from, from northern , from either or , both ultimately from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (in Celtic), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (in Germanic), and further with 🇨🇬 etc.

Noun

 * 1) yew

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) "what-if" alternative history  / events

Etymology
From, from , , from.

Conjunction

 * , on condition that

Etymology
From, from either (from ) or  (from , compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬); in either case from. See yew for more.

Noun

 * 1)  yew

Etymology
From either (from ) or  (from, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬); in either case from. See yew for more.

Noun

 * 1) yew
 * 2) yew wood

Etymology
Borrowed from.