Why do they use the word ,,kedo” so much?

pastuch said:
Why do the characters use the word ,,kedo” so much? It’s basically in every second sentence. As far as I’m aware it means ,,but” although of course please correct me if I’m wrong. Maybe I didn’t notice before, but as I’m watching now it really interested me. Is it just like the anime’s thing or does it have a deeper meaning? Did they use it so much in Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari as well? Not that it probably matters much but it just really sparked my interest!

itsrj20 said:

It just a different way to say “demo”. It can used at the beginning, middle or last in a sentence. When we want to say something different from or opposite to what the last sentence says, this “kedo” is used, and as you already know, it's "but" in english.
Just Nisio Sensei using word play, nothing special in Context to story.

pastuch said:
Why do the characters use the word ,,kedo” so much? It’s basically in every second sentence. As far as I’m aware it means ,,but” although of course please correct me if I’m wrong. Maybe I didn’t notice before, but as I’m watching now it really interested me. Is it just like the anime’s thing or does it have a deeper meaning? Did they use it so much in Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari as well? Not that it probably matters much but it just really sparked my interest!

Akiradiarra said:

You think that because in Japanese "kedo" mean but, however we can also use this word as a suffix of another word. For exemple "Shiranai" means "I don't know" but we can put kedo at the end "shiranaikedo" which means "I don't know but". This but in Japanese is different from the English one because we don't always need to continue our sentence. So we can use this word in many different way, it can also mean like "man" in English like "I don't know man", or "obviously" like " I obviously don't know".... But yeah it's really complicated to explain, sorry if it's still not clear

A1anne said:
I speak japanese and i don't hear it that often, so it's really because you are starting to learn and pick up some words randomly. When i started to watch anime 15-16 years ago for me it was words like 'kaze' 'suki' 'ai', and the 'no' by itself was something i figured out soon. So if you pick up a word like 'kedo' (which could also be 'dakedo' or 'desukedo' depending on the sentence), well it's original haha

manfrEId_890 said:
I don’t really have anything to add, just thought this was such a wholesome educational thread n wanted to be apart of it🥹

logopolis said:
'Kedo' is actually a little wider in its usability than 'but', it can also function as a sort of 'and'. And it benefits from the thing where even a full half of a sentence can often by dropped in Japanese if it doesn't seem necessary to complete it.