但 or 但是 ？
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Should I use 但 or 但是 ？
Both means but .. but .. i couldn't figure out which one is correct.
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但 is the shorthand of 但是
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Both are OK. 但是 is more colloquial in speech etc while the singular form is more for writing. Writing takes longer time to accomplish than speaking hence classical Chinese is always terse and uses single character forms.
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all the same
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