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だけど
だけど
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however
Dakedo is だ (da, auxiliary expressing certainty) plus けど (kedo, “although”), first cited to 1907.
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In a sentence
いい人だけどイマイチね。
He is nice, but he's not the one for me.
ねえ、元気がないみたいだけど。
My, you're looking green around the gills.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of だ (da, auxiliary expressing certainty) + けど (kedo, “although”).”
- “Historically, also analyzed as a clipping of だけれども (da keredomo).”
- “First cited to 1907.”
Source: Wiktionary: だけど (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Clipping
- A longer word or phrase shortened in everyday use.