Tatiana Gerasimenkoadicionou o comentário 5 years ago
Я предпочитаю ехать на машине, а не поездом.
I prefer driving to travelling by train.
Я предпочитаю ехать/ездить на машине/за рулём, а не поездом.
Я предпочитаю ехать на машине, а не поездом.
Here the speaker likes both, but prefers one.
How very interesting! What about "prefer over"?
That’s the longer version of what I just said: Here the speaker likes both, but prefers one over the other. 😉
Hm. The Я предпочитаю ехать на машине, а не поездом virtually can imply
(1) The speaker likes both, but prefers one.
(2) The speaker wants to point out that they only like driving when someone brings up traveling by train.
Well there you go 👍🏼