でも (demo) - but
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品質はいい。でも、値段は高いです。
The quality is good but the price is high.
でも、あなたにあげるりんごはありません。
But I have no apples left to give you.
日本が好きです、でもときどき日本が好きではありません。
I like Japan, but sometimes I don't like Japan.
--- Comments ---
N.B. The Japanese example was 'home made' not 'Google found' so I'm not
sure how natural it is. (contributor: Amatuka)
To make it more natural, 「品質_は_いい。でも、…。」Nobody
cares it（が） when the sentence is used in conversation.
(contributor: Miki)
Ah, thanks. (は and が are tricky beasties). (contributor: Amatuka)
We don't have でも in the sense of 日本人でも漢字は難しい？
(contributor: bamboo4)
Nor have we お茶でもいかがですか。 (contributor: hari)
but i often hear お茶でもいい？
do you want some tea? (just (humble) tea is ok?) (contributor: dc)
Both are ok as Japanese.
お茶でもいかがですか。is a polite way to ask tea or something.
Also I heard this is used by a guy to start a converstaion with a girl.
お茶でもいい？ is a casual way to suggest. dc's understanding is ok.
(contributor: Miki)
お茶でもいかがですか。is a polite form of asking 'would you have
some green tea?'. Here でも is used to indicate that ' the are other
things,equally well to be offered to listener, but the offeror just make a
single choice (which is お茶) out of the other offerings, the listerner
can make other choices if he/she didn't want green tea',
If it is お茶でいいですか , it indicates that ' there is only
green-tea to be offered, and if the listerner doesn't want then the offeror
doesn't have any other to offer' (contributor: 誠)
Is this really JLPT 1? I would have thought it 4 or 3 at most.
(contributor: Paul)
How about だけど？ It might be worth a 'see also' entry. (contributor:
ushimitsudoki)
how about in context of 'sore demo daijoubu' (contributor: takamichi)
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