What does this piece of grammar mean? ~지만...
What does the 지만 after scary do to the sentence?
I thought 지만 was a negative meaning its not scary but that wouldn't make sense.

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What does this piece of grammar mean? ~지만...
What does the 지만 after scary do to the sentence?
I thought 지만 was a negative meaning its not scary but that wouldn't make sense.

이거 무섭지만 재미있다고 했어요

Thank you

Answer

You could translate 지만 as "however" or "but"

So you could translate this sentence as: "(He/She) said it is scary but fun"

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Would it translate as "although" it is scary she said it was also interesting?

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