Afrikaans nietemin | ||
Albanian sidoqoftë | ||
Amharic ቢሆንም | ||
Arabic ومع ذلك | ||
Armenian այնուամենայնիվ | ||
Assamese তথাপিও | ||
Aymara ukhampachasa | ||
Azerbaijani buna baxmayaraq | ||
Bambara o bɛɛ n'a ta | ||
Basque hala ere | ||
Belarusian тым не менш | ||
Bengali তবুও | ||
Bhojpuri एकरा बावजूद भी | ||
Bosnian bez obzira na to | ||
Bulgarian въпреки това | ||
Catalan tanmateix | ||
Cebuano bisan pa niana | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 尽管如此 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 儘管如此 | ||
Corsican quantunque | ||
Croatian bez obzira na to | ||
Czech nicméně | ||
Danish ikke desto mindre | ||
Dhivehi އެހެނަސް | ||
Dogri फिर भी | ||
Dutch niettemin | ||
English nonetheless | ||
Esperanto tamen | ||
Estonian sellest hoolimata | ||
Ewe ke hã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) gayunpaman | ||
Finnish kuitenkin | ||
French toutefois | ||
Frisian nettsjinsteande | ||
Galician con todo | ||
Georgian ამის მიუხედავად | ||
German dennoch | ||
Greek παρ 'όλα αυτά | ||
Guarani upéicharõ jepe | ||
Gujarati તેમ છતાં | ||
Haitian Creole kanmenm | ||
Hausa duk da haka | ||
Hawaiian akā hoʻi | ||
Hebrew בְּכָל זֹאת | ||
Hindi बहरहाल | ||
Hmong txawm li cas los | ||
Hungarian ennek ellenére | ||
Icelandic engu að síður | ||
Igbo ka o sina dị | ||
Ilocano nupay kasta | ||
Indonesian meskipun begitu | ||
Irish mar sin féin | ||
Italian ciò nonostante | ||
Japanese それにもかかわらず | ||
Javanese pancet | ||
Kannada ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ | ||
Kazakh дегенмен | ||
Khmer ទោះយ៉ាងណា | ||
Kinyarwanda nonese | ||
Konkani तरी लेगीत | ||
Korean 그럼에도 불구하고 | ||
Krio pan ɔl dat | ||
Kurdish lêbelê | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەرەڕای ئەوەش | ||
Kyrgyz ошого карабастан | ||
Lao ເຖິງຢ່າງໃດກໍ່ຕາມ | ||
Latin nihilominus | ||
Latvian tomēr | ||
Lingala atako bongo | ||
Lithuanian vis dėlto | ||
Luganda wadde kiri kityo | ||
Luxembourgish trotzdem | ||
Macedonian сепак | ||
Maithili तइयो | ||
Malagasy na izany aza | ||
Malay walaupun begitu | ||
Malayalam എന്നിരുന്നാലും | ||
Maltese xorta waħda | ||
Maori ahakoa ra | ||
Marathi तथापि | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯗꯨꯝ ꯑꯣꯏꯅꯃꯛ꯫ | ||
Mizo chuti chung pawh chuan | ||
Mongolian гэсэн хэдий ч | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သို့သော် | ||
Nepali जे होस् | ||
Norwegian likevel | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) komabe | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତଥାପି | ||
Oromo kanas ta’e sana | ||
Pashto په هرصورت | ||
Persian با این وجود | ||
Polish niemniej jednak | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) não obstante | ||
Punjabi ਫਿਰ ਵੀ | ||
Quechua chaywanpas | ||
Romanian cu toate acestea | ||
Russian тем не менее | ||
Samoan e ui i lea | ||
Sanskrit तथापि | ||
Scots Gaelic a dh'aindeoin sin | ||
Sepedi le ge go le bjalo | ||
Serbian без обзира на то | ||
Sesotho leha ho le joalo | ||
Shona zvakadaro | ||
Sindhi بغير | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) එසේ වුවද | ||
Slovak avšak | ||
Slovenian kljub temu | ||
Somali sikastaba | ||
Spanish sin embargo | ||
Sundanese mangkaning | ||
Swahili hata hivyo | ||
Swedish ändå | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) gayunman | ||
Tajik бо вуҷуди ин | ||
Tamil ஆயினும்கூட | ||
Tatar шуңа да карамастан | ||
Telugu ఏదేమైనా | ||
Thai กระนั้น | ||
Tigrinya ዝኾነ ኾይኑ | ||
Tsonga hambi swi ri tano | ||
Turkish her şeye rağmen | ||
Turkmen muňa garamazdan | ||
Twi (Akan) ne nyinaa mu no | ||
Ukrainian тим не менше | ||
Urdu بہر حال | ||
Uyghur شۇنداق بولسىمۇ | ||
Uzbek baribir | ||
Vietnamese dù sao thì | ||
Welsh serch hynny | ||
Xhosa nangona kunjalo | ||
Yiddish פונדעסטוועגן | ||
Yoruba laifotape | ||
Zulu noma kunjalo |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "nietemin" is derived from the Dutch word "niettemin", which itself is a contraction of the words "niet" (not) and "temin" (mean). |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "sidoqoftë" is composed of "sido" (even) and "qoftë" (being), meaning "even be that as it may" or "anyhow". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ቢሆንም" originates from the Ge'ez "በሆነው ምክንያት" meaning "because it happened" or "because of what happened." |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "ومع ذلك" also means "yet" or "but" when used in certain contexts. |
| Azerbaijani | The phrase literally translates to something like "despite coffee," alluding to the widespread habit of drinking coffee in Azerbaijan. |
| Basque | Originally, hala ere meant "there still" in Basque |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "тым не менш" is cognate with the Polish word "tym niemniej" and the Russian word "тем не менее". The word "тым" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "тъ" (tъ), meaning "that" or "this". |
| Bengali | তবুও originates from the Sanskrit "tathāpi" which means "even so" or "despite that". |
| Bosnian | The word "bez obzira na to" is derived from the Slavic word "obzirati" (to look around), and it literally means "without looking around". |
| Bulgarian | The word "въпреки това" in Bulgarian comes from two words: "въпреки" which means "in spite of" and "това" which translates to "that". So the meaning would be something like: "In spite of that,"} |
| Catalan | Tanmateix derives from the Latin phrase "tam en matice", meaning "also in the substance". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "尽管如此" 源自成语 "尽管如此,仍不放弃",意为虽有困难或障碍,但仍然坚持或做。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「儘管如此」原為「儘管如是」,後因誤寫而改為今貌。 |
| Corsican | The word "quantunque" can also mean "however" or "although" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The term "bez obzira na to" in Croatian, meaning "nonetheless", can also be used in a more general sense to express the idea of "regardless" or "in spite of" something. |
| Czech | "Nicméně" is the Czech equivalent of the Latin "Nihilominus", or "nevertheless." |
| Danish | A more literal translation of "ikke desto mindre" is "not less than that". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, 'niettemin' is a combination of the words 'niet' (not) and 'temin' (tame), meaning 'notwithstanding' or 'nevertheless'. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto tamen derives from Latin tamen, meaning "yet" or "however". |
| Estonian | The word "sellest hoolimata" literally means "despite this" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The word "kuitenkin" is the union of the words "kuitenkin" (however) and "ki" (as). |
| French | The word "toutefois" is derived from the Old French word "toutevoies", which means "by all means" or "at all events." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "nettsjinsteande" has a double function, as both a preposition and an adverb. |
| Galician | The expression "con todo" in Galician can also mean "with everything" or "in spite of everything." |
| German | Dennoch comes from Middle High German "denne noch," meaning "still, yet" and "furthermore, then." |
| Greek | Παρ' όλα is a preposition that literally means 'on all sides' in Greek, but it is often used in the sense of 'despite' or 'in spite of'. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "kanmenm" is derived from the French "quand même," which means "in spite of," or "even so." |
| Hausa | "Duk da haka" derives from Arabic "dhuka" (injury) and "haka" (thus) and literally means "although injury". Hausa adopted it as an adverb to mean "in spite of that" or "nonetheless". |
| Hawaiian | The word, “akā hoʻi,” is made up of two words, “akā” which means “but” and “hoʻi” which means “back.” The “hoʻi” in this instance is used as a “reversal” and means, “not that.” |
| Hebrew | בְּכָל זֹאת is a compound of בְּ (in) כָּל (all) and זֹאת (this thing), meaning "in all this" or "in spite of this." |
| Hindi | The word "बहरहाल" (nonetheless) is derived from the Persian phrase "ba har hal", meaning "in any case" or "under any circumstances". |
| Hmong | "Txawm li cas los" is a popular Hmong phrase that literally translates to "even though it is like this" or "in any case". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "ennek ellenére" ("nonetheless") is a fusion form of "ennek" ("of this") and "ellenére" ("despite"). |
| Icelandic | "Engu að síður" can mean either "nonetheless" or "on the contrary". This dual meaning arises from the words "engi", "að", and "síður". "Engi" means "no" or "none", "að" is the indefinite article, and "síður" means "less" or "later". Thus, the literal meaning of "engu að síður" is "no less". Depending on the context, "no less" can mean either "nonetheless" or "on the contrary". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ka o sina dị" can also mean "yet" or "but" in English. |
| Indonesian | The word "meskipun begitu" is a combination of the words "meskipun" (although) and "begitu" (so), and it can also mean "however" or "nevertheless". |
| Irish | The Irish phrase "mar sin féin" means "nonetheless, nevertheless, or still," and is related to the Irish word "fhéin," meaning "self, own, or personal." |
| Italian | "Ciò nonostante" has a literal meaning of "that in spite of" or "that despite of". |
| Japanese | The word "それにもかかわらず" is made up of three parts: "それ" (that), "にもかかわらず" (despite that), and "かかわらず" (without changing). |
| Javanese | "Pancet" also denotes the point where a shadow ends in Javanese. |
| Kannada | ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ (adāgyū) is derived from the verb ಆಗು (āgu), meaning "to become" or "to happen," and the suffix -ದಾಗ್ಯೂ (-dāgyū), which indicates concession or contrast. |
| Kazakh | In some contexts, "дегенмен" can also mean "however" or "regardless". |
| Khmer | It derives from "ទោះ[]" (particle of doubt) and "យ៉ាងណា[]" (interrogative referring to manner), meaning "whatever way" or "however." |
| Korean | The word 그럼에도 불구하고 has its origin in the Korean phrase 그러하니에도 불구하고, meaning “in spite of that”. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word 'lêbelê' is derived from the Persian word 'ale-be-hâl', meaning 'in any case'. |
| Latin | "Nihilominus" is a Latin adverb comprising negative prefix "nihil-" (meaning "nothing, not") and comparative suffix "-minus" (meaning "less"), hence "not less" |
| Latvian | "Tomēr" is a derivative of the word "tomārs", meaning "boundary". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "vis dėlto" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*de-/*do, |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "trotzdem" is derived from the German word "trotzdem" which means "nevertheless" or "in spite of that." |
| Macedonian | The word "сепак" in Macedonian is derived from the Proto-Slavic form "*se pakъ" and is related to the particle "пак" (meaning "again"). |
| Malagasy | The word "Na izany aza" is composed of three words: "na" (even), "izany" (this), and "aza" (only). |
| Malay | The word "walaupun begitu" literally translates to "even though it is that way", indicating its role as a conjunctive in expressing a concession. |
| Maltese | The word "xorta waħda" derives from the Maltese conjunction "xorta" (literally, "type") and the Arabic word "waħda" (literally, "one"), indicating the sense of "in any case" or "regardless". |
| Maori | In Māori, the particle “ahakoa rā” conveys not just opposition, but also a sense of concession, tolerance, and continuation. |
| Mongolian | The literal, word-by-word translation of "гэсэн хэдий ч" would be something like "having said that" |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "जे होस्" is also an imperative verb phrase that means "let it be" or "nevertheless." |
| Norwegian | The word "likevel" is derived from the Old Norse words "líkr" (similar) and "vel" (well), and can also mean "in the same way" or "similarly". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "komabe" originates from the verb "kuma" meaning "to remain" and can also mean "regardless" or "nevertheless". |
| Pashto | په هرصورت derives from the Pashto peh (په) "by, in, on, at, with, from, via, for, to, about, concerning, through, by means of, according to, during, under, over, up, down, across, alongside, along, past, around, outside, within, inside, between, behind, before, beyond, after, since, until, upon, over, beside, among, against, like, as, similar, resembling, akin, comparable, matching, equal, equivalent, identical, identical, same, alike, similar, corresponding, commensurate, analogous, appropriate, proper, suitable, fit, becoming, decent, seemly, seemly, dignified, honorable, respectable, worthy, creditable, reputable, distinguished, illustrious, glorious, radiant, brilliant, splendid, magnificent, superb, excellent, grand, stately, majestic, sublime, noble, dignified, solemn, grave, serious, sober, earnest, sincere, truthful, genuine, unaffected, artless, honest, upright, righteous, virtuous, moral, ethical, good, excellent, upright, just, equitable, fair, impartial, 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| Polish | The phrase "niemniej jednak" originated from the German "nicht desto weniger" and can mean "even so" or "however" rather than solely "nonetheless". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, “não obstante” also shares the meaning of “despite the fact that”. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਫਿਰ ਵੀ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "punarapi" which means "again" or "once more". |
| Romanian | "Cu toate acestea" (nonetheless) is derived from the Latin phrase "cum tota ista," meaning "with all these things." |
| Russian | "Тем не менее" (nonetheless) derives from "тем" (nevertheless) and "менее" (less) |
| Samoan | "E ui i lea" is a contraction of "e ui lava i lea" meaning "it is good to speak". |
| Scots Gaelic | 'A dh'aindeoin sin' is also used to mean 'despite' or 'in spite of'. |
| Serbian | The phrase "без обзира на то" is used in Serbian to express the meaning of "even though" or "regardless". |
| Sesotho | The word "leha ho le joalo" has roots in "leha" meaning to be with or belonging to and "ho joalo" meaning to be in that place, state, or condition. |
| Shona | The word 'zvakadaro' in Shona originates from the verb 'kada', meaning 'to carry' or 'to lift', and the prefix 'zva-' which indicates an accomplished action. |
| Sindhi | The word "بغير" in Sindhi is derived from the Persian word "بغییر" and means "other than", or "except for". |
| Slovak | The word "avšak" comes from the Old Slovak word "však," which meant "but, however, yet." |
| Slovenian | The word "kljub temu" (nonetheless) literally means "despite this" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "sikastaba" in Somali derives from the Arabic word "sikkatu" which means "a path" or "a way". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "sin embargo" originally meant "without modesty" or "shameless". |
| Sundanese | The word "mangkaning" in Sundanese also means "however" |
| Swahili | The word "hata hivyo" is also used in the context of "in spite of everything" or "despite all that has happened." |
| Swedish | Originating from the words "ända" (tip, end) and "till" (to), "ändå" can be literally translated as "up to the tip/end" |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "gayunman" can also mean "however" or "nevertheless." |
| Tajik | The word "бо вуҷуди ин" can also mean "despite this" or "in spite of this". |
| Thai | "กระนั้น" is a shortened form of "กระนั้นก็ดี" meaning "it's alright," but it is used in the modern day to mean "nonetheless." |
| Turkish | "Her şeye rağmen" means "in spite of everything" but it also means "no matter what". |
| Ukrainian | The word "тим не менше" is a set phrase that combines the demonstrative pronoun "тим" ("that") and the comparative "менше" ("less") and thus literally means "all the less so." |
| Urdu | "بہر حال" originates from Persian and literally means "in any case". |
| Uzbek | The word 'baribir' is thought to derive from the Persian expression 'baari baari', meaning 'time after time' or 'again and again'. |
| Vietnamese | Dù sao thì (formerly written as "dù sao dĩ" or "dù rằng sao dĩ") is the abbreviated form of "dù sao dĩ (nên), dù thế nào đi nữa sao dĩ (nên)..., meaning "despite", "in spite of", "for all that". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "serch hynny" can mean "however" or "in spite of". |
| Xhosa | 'Nangona kunjalo' literally translates to 'even under those circumstances' and conveys a sense of persistence or concession. |
| Yiddish | The word 'פונדעסטוועגן' is related to the phrase 'פעם אחת' meaning 'at one time', a reminder to not let negative experiences from the past hold one back in the present. |
| Yoruba | The word "laifotape" in Yoruba is derived from the verb "la" (to do) and the noun "itape" (a trap). It literally means "to do a trap" and implies that something is done despite potential obstacles or consequences. |
| Zulu | The phrase 'noma kunjalo' literally means 'but it is so' in Zulu. |
| English | The word "nonetheless" comes from the Old English word "nāthēlēas" meaning "nevertheless" or "despite that". |