abgüä

Volapük

Etymology

From ab (“but”) + gü (“on the contrary”) + -ä (“conjunction marker”).

Conjunction

abgüä

...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

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