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English [ edit ] Prepositional phrase [ edit ] on the contrary
( conjunctive ) Opposite of what had earlier been expected or assumed .
The way he was so angry he would have hit me too but on the contrary he made peace with me.
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times [1] Even if they managed to strike Japan, the United States or South Korea with nuclear weapons — a big if, given that they do not have a reliable delivery system — they could not save themselves from ultimate defeat. On the contrary , the use of nuclear or other terror weapons would be certain to invite overwhelming retaliation, delivering North Korea’s decision makers to a fiery oblivion.
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Arabic: عَلَى الْعَكْس ( ʕalā l-ʕaks ) , بِالْعَكْس ( bi-l-ʕaks )
Hijazi Arabic: بالعكس ( bi-l-ʕaks )
Moroccan Arabic: بالعكس ( be-l-ʕaks )
Aramaic: אדרבא
Armenian: ընդհակառակը (hy) ( əndhakaṙakə )
Asturian: al contrariu
Azerbaijani: əksinə
Bashkir: киреһенсә ( kirehensə )
Belarusian: наадваро́т ( naadvarót )
Bulgarian: напро́тив (bg) ( naprótiv )
Catalan: contràriament (ca) , al contrari per contra
Chinese:
Mandarin: 反而 (zh) ( fǎn'ér ) , 相反 (zh) ( xiāngfǎn ) , 反之 (zh) ( fǎnzhī ) , 與此相反 ／ 与此相反 (zh) ( yǔcǐxiāngfǎn )
Czech: naopak (cs)
Danish: tværtimod
Dutch: integendeel (nl)
Esperanto: kontraŭe
Faroese: tvørturímóti harafturímóti
Finnish: päinvastoin (fi) , kun taas pikemminkin (fi) , toisin (fi) , sitä vastoin (fi)
French: au contraire (fr)
Galician: ao contrario
German: im Gegenteil
Greek: αντίθετα (el) ( antítheta )
Ancient: τοὐναντίον ( tounantíon )
Haitian Creole: okontrè
Hebrew: אִיפְּכָא מִסְתַּבְּרָא (he) , אַדְּרַבָּה (he) ( ad'rabá ) , נַהֲפוֹךְ הוּא (he) ( nahafókh' hu ) , לְהֶפֶךְ ( l'hefékh' )
Hungarian: ellenkezőleg (hu)
Icelandic: þvert á móti
Italian: al contrario anzi (it)
Japanese: それどころか ( soredokoroka )
Korean: 오히려 (ko) ( ohiryeo )
Latin: immō (la) , contrāriō ē contrāriō
Luxembourgish: am Géigendeel
Maori: kāhore ehara ehara tonu engari
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tvert om tvert imot
Nynorsk: tvert om
Polish: przeciwnie (pl) , wręcz przeciwnie
Portuguese: ao contrário pelo contrário
Romanian: din contră
Russian: наоборо́т (ru) ( naoborót ) , напро́тив (ru) ( naprótiv )
Serbo-Croatian: dapače (sh) , upravo suprotno
Slovak: naopak
Spanish: al contrario por el contrario
Swedish: tvärtom (sv)
Ukrainian: навпаки́ (uk) ( navpaký )
Urdu: اس کے برخلاف ( īs key barḵelāf )
Uzbek: aksincha (uz)
Walloon: estô (wa)
Yiddish: אַדרבא ( aderabe ) , להיפּוך ( leheypekh ) , פֿאַרקערט ( farkert ) , פּונקט פֿאַרקערט ( punkt farkert )
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