Translation
however; nevertheless
Examples
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He is still young, yet he already knows a great deal.
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I did not want to go; I went nevertheless.
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The truth, however, remains the truth.
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She promised to come, but she did not.
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It is difficult, but possible.
Tamen is the stronger cousin of sed. Where sed simply joins two clauses that pull apart, tamen insists that the second one holds in spite of the first. It moves about freely, so it can open a sentence or sit inside one, and the two often appear together as sed tamen for emphasis.
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