だけでなく

Kana: だけでなく

not only

Example sentence

彼は英語だけでなく、中国語も話せます。

かれはえいごだけでなく、ちゅうごくごもはなせます。

He speaks not only English but also Chinese.

What だけでなく means

だけでなく (だけでなく) is a Japanese word meaning “not only”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 3 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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