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]]> <![CDATA[By: ]]> I assume that swearing and oath and swearing as in cursing have different verbs in Spanish?

]]> I assume that swearing and oath and swearing as in cursing have different verbs in Spanish?

]]> <![CDATA[By: ]]> Hi

Regarding the "que" in "y nada más que la verdad", I read that "que" is a relative pronoun and usually means "who,whom,which or that".

How does "but" come into play here ? I presume the literal translation means something else ?

Dave

]]> Hi

Regarding the "que" in "y nada más que la verdad", I read that "que" is a relative pronoun and usually means "who,whom,which or that".

How does "but" come into play here ? I presume the literal translation means something else ?

Dave

]]> <![CDATA[By: ]]> dave12345678

i believe that que maps to "than" in this instance as in soy más alto que él. i am taller than him. entonces...

and nothing more than the truth

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i believe that que maps to "than" in this instance as in soy más alto que él. i am taller than him. entonces...

and nothing more than the truth

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no más que/ nada más que also can mean "only"

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no más que/ nada más que also can mean "only"

]]> <![CDATA[By: ]]> kikuyu

true enough and the same is true in english i.e.
nothing more than = only
it seems to me that the que is acting as than in both your phrases wheras it wouldnt have a role to explain if the phrase were "y sólo la verdad"

Ill be honest, when i heard this lesson it sounded like it had been translated from an english  courtroom drama for exactly that reason. Perhaps we both inherited the wordier form from latin. although in english its "and nothing but the truth"  which might be something more like "y nada salvo la verdad", perhaps

]]> kikuyu

true enough and the same is true in english i.e.
nothing more than = only
it seems to me that the que is acting as than in both your phrases wheras it wouldnt have a role to explain if the phrase were "y sólo la verdad"

Ill be honest, when i heard this lesson it sounded like it had been translated from an english  courtroom drama for exactly that reason. Perhaps we both inherited the wordier form from latin. although in english its "and nothing but the truth"  which might be something more like "y nada salvo la verdad", perhaps

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