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shikashi
conjunction

Alternate Written Forms:

[しか()·]
shikashi
[しか()·]
shikashi

English Meaning(s) for しかし

conjunction
  1. however; but

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Sample Sentences for しかし

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
But the boy stayed away for a long time.
But his friends call him Ken.
But then, full of guilt, I sat down at my desk one evening.
But light does not travel at the same speed through all materials; it goes slower through some than through others.

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