Хотя салями и солёная, я иногда делаю тост с салями и сыром.

Although salami is salty, I sometimes make toast with salami and cheese.

Breakdown of Хотя салями и солёная, я иногда делаю тост с салями и сыром.

• я: I
• с: with
• и: and
• делать: to make

Questions & Answers about Хотя салями и солёная, я иногда делаю тост с салями и сыром.

What does и mean in Хотя салями и солёная? Is it really and?

Here и is not the usual and.

In this pattern, хотя ... и ... means something like:

• although ...
• even though ...
• while it is true that ...

So Хотя салями и солёная means Although salami is salty.

The и adds a concessive nuance and makes the contrast sound more natural. You can think of it as reinforcing the idea: although salami is indeed salty...

You will often see:

• Хотя он и устал, он продолжал работать.
  Although he was tired, he kept working.

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Why is солёная feminine? I thought салями doesn’t look feminine.

Салями is an indeclinable loanword, and in standard Russian it is usually treated as feminine.

That is why the adjective is feminine:

• солёная = feminine
• not солёный = masculine

A helpful way to remember this is that салями is a type of колбаса, and колбаса is feminine.

So:

• салями солёная
• вкусная салями
• эта салями

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Why doesn’t салями change form in с салями?