なのに

Japanese

Etymology 1

Compound of particle な (na, mild emphasis particle) and のに (noni, particle of contrastive conjunction).

Phrase

なのに • (na no ni) 

1. but, inspite of, however, although
   • 1888, Kaho Miyake, 藪の鶯 [Yabu no uguisu]‎^[1]:

     夫婦(めおと)同(ど)士(し)だきついておどってこそ。面(おも)白(しろ)くも楽(たの)しくもありそうなものなのに。ぜひ他(た)人(にん)とおどらなければならないというのは。その極(きょく)点(てん)をいって見(み)たらどうだろう。まおとこをしなければつまらない。という論(ろん)理(り)になるではないか。

     Meoto-doshi dakitsuite odotte koso. Omoshiroku mo tanoshiku mo arisō na mono na noni. Zehi tanin to odoranakereba naranai to iu no wa. Sono kyokuten o itte mitara dō darō. Maotoko o shinakereba tsumaranai. To iu ronri ni naru de wa nai ka.

     To dance with hugging each other in the married couple, seems fun and happy, but they have to dance with others by all means; if I tried to say an extreme theory about it. How about this? Wouldn't it be a logic that it's boring if you don't play a paramour?

Synonyms

• だけど (da kedo)
• だけれども (da keredomo)
• であるのに (de aru noni)
• にもかかわらず (ni mo kakawarazu)

Antonyms

• なので (na node, resultative conjunction)

Related terms

• なの (na no)
• なのだ (na no da)
• なのです (na no desu)

Etymology 2

Clipped from それなのに (sore na noni, “even so, nevertheless”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) な​のに [náꜜnònì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [na̠no̞ɲ̟i]

Conjunction

なのに • (na noni) 

1. Used to receive the previous sentence and continue in the contrastive conjunction: nevertheless, even so, still, and yet
   • 1999 [1865], Hiroo Yamagata, transl., 不思議の国のアリス‎^[2], translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:

     『かみもとっくにまっ白(しろ)だ。なのにがんこにさか立(だ)ちざんまい――そんなお歳(とし)でだいじょうぶ？』

     “Kami mo tokku ni masshiro da. Na noni ganko ni sakadachi-zanmai――sonna o-toshi de daijōbu?”

     "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?"

Synonyms

• けれども (keredomo)
• しかし (shikashi)
• それなのに (sore na noni)