だが

だが · daga · JLPT N3 · conjunction

but

🗡️ Sounds like dagger: だが cuts the sentence and turns it around, but…

Built from the copula だ (it is) + が (but/although), so literally it is, but… It often starts a sentence as a blunter, more literary version of でも or しかし.

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