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I want to express the structure “A or B”, where A and B are verbs in the
imperative mood. The specific example I want to say is “Stand and rot or fall
apart right now.”

I assume just saying 「立って朽ちろか今すぐバラバラになれなぁ」won’t work as か is used for
alternatives with nouns.

Is there a structure that I could use here?
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verbs grammar imperatives
How to express “<imperative> or <imperative>”?
The simplest approach is to split the sentence into two and use a conjunctive
such as
[さもなくば](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%84%B6%E3%82%82%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8F%E3%81%B0)
(literary/theatrical),
[あるいは](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%88%96%E3%81%84%E3%81%AF) (formal) or それか
(colloquial). Another approach is to use AかB(か) with plain form verbs and then
add 選べ or 決めろ at the end of the sentence.

  * ここで朽ち果てろ。さもなくば今すぐここでバラバラになれ。
  * ただここで朽ち果てるか、今すぐバラバラになるか、好きな方を選べ。
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