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I heard many of them used the word 'tho' in their sentence and I'm still can't figure out what it really means and how to use it!

Wendy lly
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    It's hardly a duplicate when (a) the OP (or any learner) doesn't know that tho is an alternate spelling of though and (b) tho does not occur once in the question this is supposed to be a duplicate of. – Alan Carmack May 19 '16 at 11:00
  • Have you looked up tho in a dictionary? For instance, Oxford? – Alan Carmack May 19 '16 at 11:02
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    @AlanCarmack It's a duplicate when the answer of the duplicate master answers the question. It doesn't matter whether a learner knows what it is. A dictionary or two or simple Googling would have answered this question. –  May 19 '16 at 13:11

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It is short or "textspeak" for though.

At the end of a sentence, though means:

  • Conditions were wrong to do something, or there is a good reason something should not be done.
  • That something was done anyway.

I went to the party, though. (There's a good reason you should not have gone to the party, but you ignored that and went anyway)

LawrenceC
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tho(ugh)

When though is the last word in the sentence, it is a marker that the speaker has just added and may be adding some new information which qualifies or limits what he said a second ago, so the listener does not get the wrong idea.

He knows how to fix cars. He has no formal training, though. He learned by watching YouTube videos. Maybe you should take your car to a certified mechanic.

This is the hotel swimming pool. You can't swim in it, though. The filter is broken, and the bacteria level is too high.

TimR
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