而是

#693 by frequency

ér shì

rather

Examples

那不是猪，而是猴子。

It's not a pig; it's a monkey.

她爱的不是你，而是我。

It's not you that she loves, it's me.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.