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Jens Clasen Nov 20, 2022

The German word "doch" can mean
- but
- yet
- even so
- still
- nevertheless
- on the contrary
- after all

It's also a full answer to ANY negative statement:

Ist es nicht! (It's not!) - Doch! (Yes, it is!)
Das mache ich nicht! (I won't do that!) - Doch! (Oh yes, you will!)
Das stimmt nicht! (That's not true!) - Doch! (You bet it is!)

So many meanings - not possible, you say? Oh, doch!

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

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Biloni4Life

@jensclasen I was an exchange student in Krefeld Germany in 1979 and did not speak German (I was fluent in three months). Each day I would run to my room and look up words I did not know. I searched ENDLESSLY (and fruitlessly) for the word "doch" that I heard all the time. Not in the dictionary...but you are correct, it means EVERYTHING you stated, and perhaps more.