Although A is true, C
A and B are the same adjective
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この車はいいことはいいが燃費が悪い。
This car has it's nice parts, but it's gas mileage is bad.
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彼は優しいことは優しいがわがままだ。
Although he is nice, he's selfish.
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彼の話は分かりやすいことは分かりやすいが、話がかなり長いんだ。
While his story is easy to understand, it's rather long.
Getting the sentences
Construction
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Basic Examples:
笑うことは笑うがおかしくない (Although he's laughing, it's not funny)
便利なことは便利だが，高過ぎる (although it's convenient, it's too expensive)
安いことは安いが質が悪い (although it's cheap, it's poor quality)
Related Expressions
くせに
のに
のに
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Bambam12
Level: 186
(3 months ago)
この 車 は い い こと は い い が 燃ねん費 が 悪 い 。essentially means (The car has nice parts. Nice parts is nice parts, but its gas mileage is bad.)
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$tupid
Level: 140
(1 year ago)
ကြိုက်တာတော့ကြိုက်ပေမဲ့ / နားလည်တာတော့ နားလည်ပေမဲ့
ပုံစံတူတာသုံးရမယ်
書いてあることは 書いてあります が ーရေးတော့ရေးထားပေမဲ့
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まことまじま
Level: 516
(3 years ago)
The same phrase is repeated before and after ことは to indicate that the speaker acknowledges the fact but does not consider it particularly important.
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柚姫ちゃん
Level: 1036
(6 years ago)
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese states that the disjunctive conjunction が could also be replaced by けれど or しかし.
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