Illustration: In the courtyard of a sumo training stable, an enormous wrestler in a practice belt crouches beside a tiny fallen fledgling. His broad shoulders and powerful legs dwarf the wooden bucket nearby, yet his huge hands delicately cradle a folded towel around the bird without squeezing it.

JLPT N1conjunctionLevel estimated by Bebop

それでいて

soredeite

and yet, even so

Contrasts a point with something already mentioned. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. それでいて自分じぶんは船乗ふなのりだという。

    And he calls himself a sailor.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また八木為三郎やぎためさぶろうは「井上いのうえはその頃四十歳ころよんじゅっさいくらいで、ひどく無口むくちな、それでいて非常ひじょうに人ひとの良よい人ひとでした」といった意味いみのことを語かたっている。

    Tamesaburo YAGI said of Genzaburo that 'Inoue was about 40 years old at the time, very quiet but a good-natured person.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 彼かれは仕事しごとが速はやく、それでいてミスが少すくない。

    He works quickly, and yet makes few mistakes.

    Written by AI for Bebop

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