pourtant

Univerbation of pour (“for”) +‎ tant (“so much”).

• IPA^(key): /puʁ.tɑ̃/

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pourtant

1. however, yet
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:

     Pourtant, ce qui l’inquiétait le plus, c’était de ne pas se voir armé chevalier ; car il lui semblait qu’il ne pouvait légitimement s’engager dans aucune aventure sans avoir reçu l’ordre de chevalerie.

     However, what worried him the most was not having been dubbed a knight; for it seemed to him that he could not legitimately engage in any adventure without having received the order of knighthood.

Not to be confused with pour autant.

• → Dutch: pertang (regional, Belgium and southern Netherlands)
• → Limburgish: pertang
• → West Flemish: pertang, pertank, pertanks
• → Zealandic: pertan, pertant

• “pourtant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• poutrant