「だけど」However
「だけど」However
However
けど can be used to connect two clauses with the meaning of but. It can also be used as だけど at the beginning of a sentence.
As with けど, it indicates information contrary to expectation, so it can be translated as however.
２時間待った。だけど、彼は来なかった。
I waited for 2 hours. But he didn't come.
言いたいことはわかる。だけど、決まったことは変えられない。
I understand what you want to say. But we can't change what's been decided.
Special Note
Here is one way you can think of this expression to make it easier to remember. だ expresses that something exists a certain way, so we can think of it as meaning it is this way.
And as we learned in the previous lesson, けど expresses a contradiction similar to but.
If we now combine these two, we get だ + けど it is this way, but, in reference to some previous statement.
General Structure
だけど、私は行かなかった。