Une dos ideas que se oponen entre sí.
Links two ideas that contrast with each other.
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See how the word “pero” is used in sentences
Quiero ir, pero no tengo tiempo. — I want to go, but I have no time.
Llámame mañana, pero no muy temprano. — Call me tomorrow, but not too early.
El plan funciona, pero ¿quién lo paga? — The plan works, but who pays for it?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testSpanish splits what English packs into one word, and this is the split English speakers get wrong most often. Pero joins two ideas that pull against each other: quiero ir, pero no tengo tiempo. Sino corrects a negative: no quiero café, sino té — not coffee, but tea.
The test is simple. If the first half is negative and the second half replaces it rather than qualifying it, Spanish needs sino. And if what follows is a conjugated verb, it becomes sino que: no vino, sino que llamó.
Pero also opens sentences for emphasis, where English would use an interjection: ¡pero qué dices! — what on earth are you saying?
sino but — after a negative
The one to learn. No quiero café, pero té is wrong; it has to be sino.
sin embargo however
The formal connector. It opens a sentence, where pero joins two clauses inside one.
aunque although, even though
Subordinates instead of coordinating, and takes the subjunctive when the concession is hypothetical.
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