Walaupun sempat berbeda pendapat, kami tetap akur.

to be

Breakdown of Walaupun sempat berbeda pendapat, kami tetap akur.

• kami: we
• tetap: still
• walaupun: even though

Questions & Answers about Walaupun sempat berbeda pendapat, kami tetap akur.

What does walaupun do in this sentence?

Walaupun means although, even though, or though. It introduces a contrast:

• Walaupun sempat berbeda pendapat = Although we briefly disagreed / Although we had different opinions
• kami tetap akur = we still got along

So walaupun sets up the idea that something potentially negative happened, but the result was still positive.

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What does sempat mean here? Does it literally mean to have time?

Not exactly. Sempat often has the basic idea of having the chance/time to do something, but in many sentences it also means something like:

• at one point
• briefly
• for a time
• did happen before something else

In this sentence, sempat berbeda pendapat means they did have a disagreement at some point or briefly had differing opinions.

So here, sempat is not really about free time. It adds the nuance that the disagreement happened, but it was not the lasting or final state.

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What does berbeda pendapat mean exactly?

Berbeda pendapat literally means to differ in opinion.

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