toutefois
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French toutesfoys, from the plurals toutes and fois. In Old French, the adverb was totesvoies (from voie (“way”)), closer to Italian tuttavia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tu.tə.fwa/, /tut.fwa/
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Adverb
toutefois
- however, nonetheless
Further reading
- “toutefois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.