"on the one hand" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-on the one hand.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} on the one hand, {{en-PP}} on the one hand
  1. (sequence, idiomatic) From one point of view. Tags: idiomatic, sequence Synonyms: on one hand (english: often considered incorrect and not found in most dictionaries) Coordinate_terms: on the other hand, on the gripping hand (english: fanspeak slang) Translations (from one point of view): от една́ страна́ (ot edná straná) (Bulgarian), d'una banda (Catalan), 一方 (yīfāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 一方面 (yī fāngmiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), på den ene side (Danish), enerzijds (Dutch), unuflanke (Esperanto), yhtäältä (Finnish), d’un côté (French), zum einen (German), einerseits (German), einesteils (German), egyrészt (Hungarian), da un lato (Italian), 一方 (ippō) (alt: いっぽう) (Japanese), viena vertus (Lithuanian), iš vienos pusės (Lithuanian), از یک سو (az yek su) (Persian), z jednej strony (Polish), por um lado (Portuguese), pe de-o parte (Romanian), с одно́й стороны́ (s odnój storoný) [masculine] (Russian), air an dàrna làimh (Scottish Gaelic), с једне стране [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), у једну руку [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), s jedne strane [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), u jednu ruku [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), por un lado (Spanish), å ena sidan (Swedish), з одно́го бо́ку (z odnóho bóku) (Ukrainian)

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