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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

nodesuka のですが


First of all, "no desu ga" is written "のですが" in japanese, so in alphabet, it should be "nodesuga". No spaces. 

This expression could be used for a sentence of contrast. 
For example, "I want to go, but I sleep today." 
⇒行きたいのですが、きょうはねます。 
 Ikitai "nodesuga"、kyouha namasu。 
In this case, "nodesuga" was used as "but". 

There is also another type of sentence which doesn't have the last half part of sentence. 
⇒行きたいのですが・・・ 
 Ikitai"nodesuga".....(end) 
This is a sentence that the speaker is "indicating" that the speaker has a negative condition from the first part of sentence. So that a listener would be able to "guess" that she/he can not go. 

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