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But in Spanish

“But” in Spanish is pero, pronounced /ˈpe.ɾo/. It's a conjunction, so it has no gender.

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A golden dog looks sadly through a glass door at a bone-shaped cookie on the floor outside.
pero /ˈpe.ɾo/ · conjunction Hear the word

In a sentence

El perro quiere comer la galleta, pero está detrás de la puerta de vidrio.

The dog wants to eat the cookie, but it is behind the glass door.

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Grammar note

After a negative, when the second part replaces the first, use sino instead: no es rojo, sino azul (it isn't red but blue). Everywhere else, it's pero.

How to remember it

Pero has one tapped r, a quick flick of the tongue. Roll it and you get perro, dog. The dog in the photo wants the cookie, pero the door is closed.

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