かえって
kaette
on the contrary, rather
JLPT N3 adverbExample sentences
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Mori no naka wa shizumarikaetsu te i ta.
It was quiet in the forest.
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Kaisuiyokujou wa, kaisuiyoku kyaku de afurekaetsu te i mashi ta.
The beach was overflowing with bathers.
Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR.