でも

Kana: でも

but; however

Example sentence

行きたいです。でも、時間がありません。

いきたいです。でも、じかんがありません。

I want to go. But I don't have time.

What でも means

でも (でも) is a Japanese word meaning “but; however”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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