Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire

[lex_luthor_2007]

Hi,

How would you say " Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait croire Cendrillon n'a pas été inventé par Walt Disney mais est le personnage éponyme d'un roman de Charles Perrault."


"Contrary to what you may think [...]"

Merci!

 

[pieanne]

Contrarily to what one might think, ...

 

[vsop44]

Contrary to what you might believe ...

 

[boterham]

Contrary to or Unlike what most people might believe/think/imagine

 

[misterk]

Contrary to what one might think,...

 

[pieanne]

"Contrarily" is not used, then?

 

[misterk]

No, it is not.
Except, perhaps, in sentences like "He acted very contrarily" - but that doesn't sound too natural...

 

[pieanne]

OK, thank you, MrK!

 

[Meryle]

pieanne, "contrarily" is fine in misterk's example. It's the adverb formed from contrary (so, in a contrary manner).

 

[mellow-yellow]

Although Meryle is correct, search the free COCA linguistics database (http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/), "contrarily" is far rarer than "contrary" and appears most frequently in academic texts (less, if ever, in soap operas or literature). The most common collocate (words/tokens found nearby) for "contrarily" is a "," (a comma, with 25 hits) as in

In this respect it breaks new ground. Contrarily, it is difficult to see how the religious nature of the bank affects the...

whereas the number 1 collocate for "contrary" is "the" (the determiner, with 7681 hits), as in:
Almost immediately, he began to entertain the belief that, contrary to Orthodox teaching, we come from the sea and, according to a pile...

In short, both are used, but "contrarily" is rarely attested.