を除いて details
with the exception of; excluding
日曜日を除いて、毎日開いています。
nichiyoubi o nozoite, mainichi aite imasu.
We're open every day except Sunday. neutral
田中くんを除いて、みんな賛成だったよ。
tanaka-kun o nozoite, minna sansei datta yo.
Everyone was in favor, except Tanaka. casual
- formal
Examples
with the exception of N — N is carved out of a set or period, and the rest is what the sentence describes
日曜日を除いて、毎日開いています。
nichiyoubi o nozoite, mainichi aite imasu.
We're open every day except Sunday. neutral
田中くんを除いて、みんな賛成だったよ。
tanaka-kun o nozoite, minna sansei datta yo.
Everyone was in favor, except Tanaka. casual
一部の商品を除き、全品半額でございます。
ichibu no shouhin o nozoki, zenpin hangaku de gozaimasu.
With the exception of a few items, everything is half price. formal
Formation
{N}をのぞいてattaches to noun
Variant notes
- を除き — て drops to the stem for the written-report shape — 日曜日を除き終日営業しております。
Related patterns
Similar
しか〜ない restricts the sentence to exactly N by ruling out every other option through negation; を除いて keeps the rest of the set fully in play and only carves N out of it — 週末しか働かない narrows down to weekends alone, 週末を除いて働く narrows away from them, leaving every other day.
以外 attaches straight onto the noun and can itself carry が as the sentence's own subject (これ以外が必要だ); を除いて is the て-form of 除く "to remove" and stays a verbal adverbial phrase describing an action performed on the set, never itself the sentence's subject (×を除いてが).
を除いて subtracts N from a larger set and describes what remains true across that whole set (日曜日を除いて毎日); 抜きで pulls one expected ELEMENT out of a single event or thing and describes what happens without that ingredient (朝食抜きで出かけた) — を除いて counts members of a group, 抜きで strips a component from something singular.