English English Dictionary

but in English:

1. but

Thanks, but no thanks.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

It's only a small house but it meets my needs perfectly.

But of course that was a long time ago.

But what will you do if he doesn't come?

Irene Pepperberg, a researcher at Northwestern University, is discovering that a parrot can not only mimic people but also learn the meaning of words.

I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.

After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.

Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.

He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.

It may seem like just a little thing to you, but Tom is really worried about the whole thing.

He promised to bring new industries to the region, but politicians rarely keep their word.

It was very cold last night, so we didn't go outside, but stayed indoors.

Cats are like girls. If they talk to you it's great, but if you try to talk to them, it doesn't go so well.

My friend recommended that I shouldn't buy an iPad yet, but to wait until I see what Apple's competitors come out with.

English word "but"(but) occurs in sets:

Nicholas' Sight Words

2. however

You are wrong, however.

Nutella is not very well known in Japan. However, in America and Europe it's a popular spread and various sized jars of Nutella may be seen lined up inside many grocery stores and supermarkets.

In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.

All of his friends were body pillows, and all of hers were dolls; so they bonded over their fondness for animating the inanimate. However, because they were not inanimate objects but people with complex emotions, their relationship was sometimes strained.

The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.

That's correct. In Japanese, ウエートレス corresponds both to the English "waitress" and "weightless". However, "waitress" is the more usual meaning.

I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.

We're not going to get there in time, however fast we drive. He had always been a successful businessman. Recently, however, things have not been going well for him.

However, what's interesting is that whilst there are people whose computer use has become a problem, there are also people who have recovered from illness because of using computers.

Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class; if you don't face it in real earnest, then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

Lojban is designed to be unambiguous in orthography, phonology, morphology, and grammar. Lojban semantics, however, must support the same breadth of human thought as natural languages.

When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.

Nowadays, however, calculators can be used freely in school examinations, and already in many schools the only sound to be heard during a math exam is the sound of children tapping on their calculators.

3. though

It's expensive though.

Even though computer programmers may use semicolons every day, nowadays most people only use semicolons for emoticons.

Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.

Cesar Chavez asked that strikers remain non-violent even though farm owners and their supporters sometimes used violence.

Though Tom's English seems quite good at times, he doesn't seem to know his limitations and it's impossible to convince him that he's wrong when he makes a mistake.

You're an arrogant dirty foreigner who claims your dictionary is correct even though you don't understand the nuances of Japanese.

Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.

Though it is true that every normal human being is able to use language, it is misleading to compare this with his ability to eat, sleep, or walk.

His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).

I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

English word "but"(though) occurs in sets:

Tarantulas 2.2

4. a

It's a surprise.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.

Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.

Your dream of becoming a baseball player will come true if you try hard.

Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.

The policeman talked to the children in as friendly a manner as he could.

Hypothetically a person can live a perfect life without sinning.

He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.

In addition to taking the regular tests, we have to hand in a long essay.

Will it be necessary for us to buy a book for this class?

Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?

5. shoe

Tie your shoe.

They're only $50 with two cans of shoe polish free of charge.

This steak is as tough as shoe leather.

This kind of shoe is apt to slip on wet ground.

Their father had a large shoe shop in the town.

Excuse me, but where is the men's shoe department?

This shoe fits me well.

What's your shoe size?

Tom doesn't know what Mary's shoe size is.

An odd shoe was left on the doorstep.

Can you recommend your favorite shoe store?

The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.

She often wears high-heeled shoes.

I bought a new pair shoes yesterday.

He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."

6. yet

Haven't you decided yet?

The prisoners would have to go through yet one more hardship.

When he came to Tokyo for the first time, this college had not been opened yet.

No sooner is one lie out of your mouth than you're telling yet another.

It was cold last night, yet he didn't wear a coat.

You will yet regret it.

Eventually I'd like to settle down and have a family, but not yet.

If you have not yet paid this bill, please let us hear from you.

This time I hadn't converted my money yet, so I needed to change Yen into Yuan.

I am not sure yet if I will go to a university or get a job.

I might have done well on yesterday's test, but I do not know the results yet.

Do you think this jelly's firm enough to eat yet?

If you haven't driven a bike yet, you should give it a shot.

The point of true mutual understanding has not yet been reached between Japan and China.

Everything around him was blown to pieces, yet he escaped without a scratch.

7. contrastingly

8. on the other side

The post office is on the other side of the street.

Post office is on the other side of the road.

9. ale

Pale ale is a low-alcohol beer.

10. whereas

companies have shareholders whereas partnerships have partners

Deoxyhemoglobin can be detected by MRI, whereas oxyhemoglobin can't.

whereas it is necessary to introduce certain safety advice phrases related to the dangers to health;

Whereas the rate of rejection on dating apps is so high it's often hard to cope with one coming in after another. / They deal with realities, whereas this was a fantasy.

Whereas he was weak as a baby, he is now very strong.

Whereas Spain has the Royal Spanish Academy, the United States has Urban Dictionary.

French are better gardeners than Germans: they have green hands whereas their neighbours only have green thumbs.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Change is one thing, progress is another. "Change" is scientific, "progress" is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Life expectancy in the third world is relatively short, whereas in the western world it has increased substantially.

Her boyfriend likes active holidays whereas/while she could only walk to and from the beach.

1. Sarah is short whereas her sister Jade is tall. 2. He is particularly good at it whereas I am not.

whereas stepping up to someone in the...

1. I haven't had problems with this homework whereas my friend couldn't do it at all. 2. I like grammar whereas he prefers vocabulary

Library is a place you can borrow some books, whereas bookshop is a place you can buy some books.

English word "but"(whereas) occurs in sets:

#2 wejściówka ([nie]formalne)

11. I see what you're getting at

12. although

although + full sentence

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.

Schools have tried to limit their use by not allowing them to be used in math classes, although they allow them in science lessons to save time.

Although Al-Sayib would never admit it, the real reason he hates noobs that much is that he got pwned by one while Dima watched and laughed his ass off.

Although I was the eldest son in the family, I was the third child in the sequence, so everyone from superiors to inferiors called Yun “third lady.”

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.

Они вернутся, хотя не хотят|They will return although they don’t want to

a material resources deteriorate over time, although its human resources improve

The forgot username process, although an available option in the career section properties, should not be used since users are forced to log using their email address.

You use although to introduce a subordinate clause which contains a statement that contrasts with the statement in the main clause

He had a weak point --this Fortunato --although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.

Those who choose to retire can do so as early as sixty-two, although starting to draw their Social Security distributions at that age would mean that the payments would be reduced by twenty percent.

Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued.