au dela v. par dela

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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on March 3, 2018 at 9:33pm

very very small and very hard to explain.

au-delà is more used.

par-delà is more literary.

I would say that "au-delà" is just to indicate "on the other side" and "par-delà"  is used for the same meaning but with an idea of obstacle. 

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Permalink Reply by alan gould on March 4, 2018 at 8:16am

i'll just use au-dela all the time.  Tx

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