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But, yet, nevertheless, notwithstanding. This conjunction is often used by foreigners for the adverb तर. There is great and important difference betwixt the two, to be fully apprehended however only through close attention and careful practice. As a serviceable although imperfect rule, it may be stated that परंतु is always, more or less plainly, objective, adversative, or interruptive. Never therefore require परंतु to take any other standing, or to carry on a sentence in continuous and smooth flow. तर, although often occurring as corrective, qualifying, substitutionary, supplementary &c., or as a subtil and elusive expletive, should be steadily regarded by the learner as the correlative of जर, and agreeing well, in sense and in force, with the English Then,--in that case, in consequence. 2 However.
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