köken: Univerbation of ob + wohl, from the older use of ob as a conditional and concessive conjunction, reinforced with an adverb. Compare obgleich, obschon, obzwar and also gleichwohl.
Frau Anna, unsere Empfangsdame, flirtet mit Patienten, obwohl sie Mutter von drei Kindern ist.
köken: From Old Japanese. Attested since at least the Man'yōshū of 759. Analyzable as 仮定形(かていけい) (kateikei)/已然形(いぜんけい) (izenkei) of verb 言(い)う (iu, to say) + inflectional suffix ど (do, indicating contrasting conjunction) + particle も (mo). The kanji spelling is from Middle Chinese via kanbun. Up through the Heian period, the reading ifu to mo was used specifically for hypothetical statements, while the…
köken: From obsolete use of fast as an intensifier (compare fast asleep and firmly as an intensifier in English) + än (“yet”). Roughly, "how much yet" (no matter how much).
Jag följde med till pizzerian fastän jag inte var hungrig