N3 — outside your level filter
but; still — the spoken "but" at the head of a sentence
行きたかったんだ。だけど、バイトが入っちゃってさ。
ikitakatta n da. dakedo, baito ga haitchatte sa.
I did want to go. But then I got put on a shift. casual
「この店、安いよ。」「だけど、駅からちょっと遠くない？」
"kono mise, yasui yo." "dakedo, eki kara chotto tookunai?"
"This place is cheap, you know." "Sure, but isn't it a bit far from the station?" casual
Variants
だけれどdakeredoalternant
unclipped and a shade more careful; だけれども is the fullest of the three and now sounds stiff or older in speech.
ですけどdesukedoformal
the polite face, for when the rest of the turn is in ですます — common in service speech, where bare だけど would sound flippant.
だけど
だけどdakedoN3casual