autre chose

  • else

    ByFast French

    English attaches “else” to pronouns and adverbs to point to an additional or different one: something else, anyone else, nowhere else, nothing else, somewhere else. French has no single word that does this job. Instead, it builds the same meaning from a small set of parts, chiefly autre (“other”), d’autre (“else”), ailleurs (“elsewhere”) and autre…

  • autre chose vs quelque chose d’autre

    ByFast French

    Autre chose and quelque chose d’autre both mean “something else” or “anything else.” They overlap heavily in meaning, but they are built differently, and one fits more naturally than the other depending on the sentence. Meaning and structure Autre chose is a fixed phrase that behaves as a single unit, roughly “other thing.” Nothing can…