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Prepositional phrase [ edit ]
on the contrary
( conjunctive ) Opposite of what had earlier been expected or assumed .
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.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
opposite
Arabic: عَلَى الْعَكْس ( ʕalā l-ʕaks ) , بِالْعَكْس ( bi-l-ʕaks )
Hijazi Arabic: بالعكس ( bi-l-ʕaks )
Moroccan Arabic: بالعكس ( be-l-ʕaks )
Aramaic: אַדְּרַבָּה ( ʾaddərabbā )
Armenian: ընդհակառակը (hy) ( əndhakaṙakə )
Asturian: al contrariu
Azerbaijani: əksinə
Bashkir: киреһенсә
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) ( ípkha mistábra ) , אַדְּרַבָּה (he) ( adrabá ) , נַהֲפוֹךְ הוּא (he) ( nahafókh hú ) , לְהֶפֶךְ ( lehéfkh )
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
Mari:
Eastern Mari: даже мӧҥгешла ( daže möŋgešla ) , мӧҥгешла ( möŋgešla )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tvert om , tvert imot
Nynorsk: tvert om
Polish: przeciwnie (pl) , wręcz przeciwnie
Portuguese: ao contrário , pelo contrário
Romanian: dimpotrivă (ro) , 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 )