Translation of "on one hand" to French

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Dictionary translations for "on one hand"

on one hand adverb

d'une part (from one point of view)

Contexts with "on one hand"

Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult. Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère.

Can you keep standing on one of your legs with closed eyes for a minute? Peux-tu te tenir debout sur un seul pied en fermant les yeux pendant une minute ?

On the one hand, you are wrong, but on the other hand, I can't blame you for that. Certes tu t'es trompé, mais je ne peux pas te blâmer pour cela.

Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them. Des organismes vivants avaient peuplé la Terre pendant plus de trois milliards d'années, sans jamais savoir pourquoi, avant que la vérité ne finisse par apparaître à l'un d'entre eux.

He gives with one hand and takes away with the other. Il donne d'une main et reprend de l'autre.

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