adversativa (from lat. adversativus ) adj. That implies opposition. It is used almost exclusively in grammar, applied to certain conjunctions and conjunctive expressions that serve to express opposition or contradiction between the content of the sentences that unite, as well as to these sentences. . Catáloga Now, now that, rather, if as well as, being so, the issue is that, rather, instead, the case is that, the truth is that, if as, on the contrary, to. . Forms of expression The two typical adversative conjunctions are but and but ; the first applies to prayers that express an inconvenience so that what is expressed in the main sentence is carried out: I would like to go, but I am tired ; the second expresses that what the sentence affected by it contradicts or excludes what is expressed by a main refusal: It does not help, it hinders, I do not mean you, but your brother . But sometimes expresses, more than an opposition, the distortion of a consequence that seems natural, and the compound sentence can be replaced by another constructed with although or another of the conjunctions called concessions : It is Spanish, but not he likes bulls , is equivalent to although he is Spanish, he does not like bulls . But sometimes has a restrictive rather than an adversarial sense, equivalent to more than : You have nothing else to do but wait. The same meaning as but have more and however . But has no exactly equivalent expression. Some sentences with a gerund also have an adverse meaning: He accuses us, having done nothing but obey his orders . As well as others with the conjunction if : If I warned you in time, what do you reproach me? .
