zwar

Significado (Inglés)

  1. Signals a following contrary clause, which is usually introduced with aber (“but”), stressing that the speaker is aware of the contradiction, but that it does not invalidate the statement.
  2. namely
  3. Intensifies a request or command.

Frecuencia

A2
Dialectos

Zúrich

Zúrich

zwar

Cantón de Basilea-Campiña

Cantón de Basilea-Campiña

zwoor

Lucerna

Lucerna

zwar

Datos proporcionados por: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/tsvaːr/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From Middle High German zwāre, contraction of ze wāre (“verily, indeed”), from Old High German zi wāre (8th c.). Equivalent to zu + wahr. The concessive use developed first in cognate Middle Low German twâre. Compare Czech sice.

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