VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

でも

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but, however

Part of speech · conjunction

Pattern visualization

no decomposition available

Examples

雨です。でも行きます。
It is raining. But I will go.
コーヒーでも飲みましょう。
Shall we have coffee or something.

Collocations

でも (demo, but)~でも (soft suggestion)誰でも (daredemo)何でも (nandemo)いつでも (itsudemo)

Mnemonic

Demo (でも) is "but / or something" — B + no-cluster multi-use. Two roles: (1) sentence-initial conjunction (but); (2) noun + demo (soft suggestion). Other family: daredemo (whoever), nandemo (whatever), itsudemo (whenever). Korean hajiman / rado and Chinese danshi / zhilei split parallel; Japans indirectness core.

Quick check

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