B1adverb
pourtant
yet, and yet
« Il a beaucoup travaillé et pourtant il a raté l’examen. »
“He worked a lot and yet he failed the exam.”
In other languages
- Spanish aun así
- Portuguese mesmo assim
- German trotzdem
- Italian eppure
- Arabic رغم ذلك
Related B1 words
In a story
« Pourtant, le débat change de nature. »
from “La radio du quartier”, a free B2 story you can read in full.
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