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I recently saw a subbed video of two Seiyuus having a conversation where they
say this phrase:

"金ならあるし"

Which was subbed as "Well I have money anyways"

The context was they were talking about a catchphrase one of them will have in
the future.

I often see なら being used as "if" or a conditional phrase but it doesn't seem
like it here.

Does it have other uses besides "if"?
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grammar particles
Use of なら that are not "if"
[なら](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89) can mean _as for, on the
topic of_. So the sentence means literally, _as for money, I have it_.
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This Xなら is still basically a conditional expression. You can translate it
using conditionals like "If X is what matters", "If it's about X", "If you
mean X", "If X is the case", "If you worry about X", and so on. For example,
それなら is typically translated as "If so" or "If that's the case".

金ならあるし can be understood along the lines of "If money matters, I have some".
In this case, the difference between 金ならあるし and 金はあるし is probably not very
important, so it's okay to translate the なら as just an emphatic version of は.
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