¿Sabías que...?: "Tatuaje"proviene de una traducción erróneapor parte de unos marineros del Pacífico que quedaron fascinados con los tattoos que vieronen sus viajes.
sino / fate
 
sino   1   -noun masculine   fate,   destiny
 
sino / but
 
sino   2   -conjunction
1. (=pero)   but
·no son ocho sino nueve
·there are not eight but nine
·no lo hace nounólo para nouní sino para todos
·he'noun not doing it only for himself but for everybody
·no nounólo ..., sino ...
·not only ..., but ...
·no cabe otra soluciónoun sino que vaya él
·the only answer is that he should go
2. (=salvo)   except,   save
·todos aplaudieron sino él
·everybody except him applauded
·no lo habría dicho sino en broma
·he could only have said it jokingly,   he wouldn't have said it except as a joke
3. (=únicamente)   only
·¿quiénoun sino él se habría atrevido?
·only he would have dared!
·no te pido sino una cosa
·I ask only o but one thing of you
 
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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