Volapük

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Etymology

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From ab (but) + (on the contrary) + (conjunction marker).

Conjunction

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abgüä

  1. ...but rather, but instead (in combination with noe (not exactly))
    badim ela Beckett tefon noe jenöfiko stadi menik, abgüä stadi binoda kulivik ä sogädika — Beckett's pessimism refers not really to the human condition, but instead to the state of a cultivated, social entity