Two-Part Connectors: d'une part...d'autre part
Two-Part Connectors: d'une part...d'autre part
Hindi already has a formal, register-appropriate pair for balancing two sides of an argument, एक ओर...दूसरी ओर, sitting a notch more formal than the everyday एक तरफ़...दूसरी तरफ़ from earlier in this course — mirroring French's own two-tier system of d'une part/d'autre part (formal) versus d'un côté/de l'autre (everyday).
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
d'une part...d'autre part: formal balancing — matched by Hindi's more formal एक ओर...दूसरी ओर
D'une part, la ville est chère ; d'autre part, il y a beaucoup d'emplois. (On the one hand the city is expensive; on the other hand, there are many jobs)
एक ओर, शहर महँगा है; दूसरी ओर, यहाँ बहुत नौकरियाँ हैं।
d'une part...d'autre part is the formal, essay-register way to weigh two sides of an argument. Hindi has exactly this same two-tier distinction: एक ओर...दूसरी ओर reads more formal and essay-appropriate, while एक तरफ़...दूसरी तरफ़ (met earlier, in the advantages-and-disadvantages lesson) is the everyday, conversational version of the identical idea — ओर and तरफ़ both mean 'side/direction', but ओर carries a slightly more literary flavor, just as d'une part outranks d'un côté in formality. Reach for the ओर version in formal writing and तरफ़ in speech, matching the register split you'd make in French.
non seulement...mais aussi: adding weight, not contrast — already matched by Hindi's सिर्फ़...ही नहीं, बल्कि...भी
Non seulement il est intelligent, mais il est aussi gentil. (Not only is he smart, but he's also kind)
वह सिर्फ़ होशियार ही नहीं, बल्कि दयालु भी है।
Unlike d'une part/d'un côté, which sets up a contrast, non seulement...mais aussi stacks two points in the same direction — it's for building up an argument, not balancing opposing ones. You already met Hindi's exact structural match, सिर्फ़...ही नहीं, बल्कि...भी, earlier in this course: both languages front-load 'not only' and close with an 'also/too' word, in the identical two-part shape. The parallel goes further still: formal French sometimes inverts the verb after a fronted non seulement (non seulement est-il intelligent...) for extra polish — Hindi has no equivalent inversion trick here, so simply keep Hindi's normal word order and treat the fronted-inversion option in French as an optional stylistic flourish you can skip, just as you would in casual speech.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
- Hindi
- एक ओर...दूसरी ओरek or...dūsrī or
- English
- on the one hand...on the other hand
- Hindi
- एक तरफ़...दूसरी तरफ़ek taraf...dūsrī taraf
- English
- on one side...on the other
- Hindi
- सिर्फ़...ही नहीं, बल्कि...भीsirf...hī nahīñ, balki...bhī
- English
- not only...but also
- Hindi
- इसके अलावाiske alāvā
- English
- furthermore
- Hindi
- इसके अतिरिक्त (औपचारिक)iske atirikt (aupcārik)
- English
- moreover (formal)