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Danish
Adverb
derimod
- however
2011, Denise Rudberg, Matilde, Art People, →ISBN:At de spiste yoghurt, der var fuld af sukker, og troede, at det var sundt, syntes hun derimod ikke om.- However, she did not like their eating sugar-filled youghurt and believing it to be healthy.
2008, Karl Aage Rasmussen, Musik i virkeligheden: essays om musik og mennesker, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 215:Demokrati handler derimod ikke om yderligheder. Det handler i sit væsen om at finde midten, flertallet, kompromisset.- Democracy is not, however, about extremes. It is, by nature, about finding the middle, the majority, the compromise.
2008, Stig Hjarvard, En verden af medier, Samfundslitteratur, →ISBN, page 186:Mere end halvdelen af befolkningen finder derimod ikke, at de har fået for meget opmærksomhed.- More than half of the population does not, however, think that they have been given too much attention.
- (archaic) in opposition hereto
- 1839, Snorri (Sturluson.), Jacob Aall, Snorre Sturlesons norske Kongers Sagaer
De fleste Stemmer vare enige i at vælge Jarlen Hakon Galin; men Erkebiskop Erik satte sig derimod, yttrende, at der var Tvist og Uvenskab mellem ham og Hakon.- Most of the votes agreeed to elect the earl Hakon Galin; but arch-bishop Erik opposed this, claiming that there was unfriendliness between him and Hakon.
- 1757, Peter Frederik und Schöning Suhm (Gerhard), Gerhard Schöning, Forsog til Forbedringer i den gamle Danske og Norske Historie. (dan.), page 448
Ingen af Delene vilde staae Erkebispen an, som satte sig derimod af alle Krafter;- The arch-bishop would accept neither, and opposed this with all his power.
1794, Nye danske magazin, page 233:Men da den ringere Adel kom løbende ind i Raads-forsamlingen, og sagde, at de vilde have Hertug Christian af Holsteen til Konge, og at de vilde vide, hvem der satte sig derimod, ...- But when the lower nobility came running into the congregated council, and said, they wanted duke Christian of Holstein as king, and that they wanted to know who were opposed hereto, ...