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totuși
nevertheless /toˈtuʃʲ/
adverb#4342 most common
Also: still, yet, after all
Example sentences
Ploua, dar am ieșit totuși afară.
It was raining, but I went outside anyway.
Nu mi-e foame, dar voi mânca totuși ceva.
I'm not hungry, but I'll eat something anyway.
Totuși, cred că ar trebui să încercăm din nou.
Still, I think we should try again.
Deși părea imposibil, au reușit totuși să termine proiectul la timp.
Although it seemed impossible, they still managed to finish the project on time.
Argumentele lui erau convingătoare; totuși, comitetul a respins propunerea.
His arguments were convincing; nevertheless, the committee rejected the proposal.
Oricâte precauții am fi luat, tot ar fi existat totuși un risc rezidual.
No matter how many precautions we had taken, there would still have been a residual risk.
Word family
Etymology
Totuși is not a single word inherited whole from Latin. It was built inside Romanian from tot, which goes back to Latin totus meaning whole or all, and și, an old adverb meaning also or even. Fusing the two shifted the sense from all and toward the contrastive still, after all, nevertheless. A linking vowel u joins the parts, the same pattern seen in totuna, all the same.
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