What does samt in Icelandic mean?

What is the meaning of the word samt in Icelandic? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use samt in Icelandic.

The word samt in Icelandic means still, yet, anyway. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word samt

still

adverb

Vissulega er vit í áætluninni þinni en ég held samt að það verði mjög erfitt að framfylgja henni.
Admittedly your plan makes sense, but I still think it will be very hard to carry out.

yet

conjunction

Samkvæmt tímanum er dagur en samt skyggir dimm nķtt á lampa ferđamannsins.
By the clock'tis day and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.

anyway

adverb

Ég veit að það er rangt að hlaða tónlist niður af netinu en ég geri það samt.
I know that downloading music from the internet without paying is wrong, but I do it anyway.

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En hafið samt alveg á tæru:
The point that I must emphasise is
Ég vissi hversu mikils Guð metur mannslíkamann en það var samt ekki nóg til að stoppa mig.“ — Jennifer, 20 ára.
I knew of God’s high regard for the human body, but even this did not deter me.” —Jennifer, 20.
Þessi er samt meira notuð þar sem mjög auðvelt er að komast yfir natrón, en erfitt getur verið að komast svo auðveldlega yfir Almoníak.
Those may grow too big for normal anal passage, thus becoming clinically relevant.
... ‚Samt,‘ benti öldungur Nash á ‚brosir þú í samtali okkar.‘
“... ’And yet,’ Elder Nash noted, ‘you are smiling as we talk.’
„Þrátt fyrir að ég fái ekki afmælisgjafir gefa foreldrar mínir mér samt gjafir á öðrum tímum.
“Even though I don’t get presents on my birthday, my parents still buy me gifts on other occasions.
Jehóva veit fullvel hvað býr í hjörtum okkar en hvetur okkur samt til að tala við sig í bæn.
Jehovah, though fully aware of what is in our heart, encourages us to communicate with him.
Með hjálp foreldra sinna og annarra í söfnuðinum náði þessi unga systir samt því markmiði sínu að verða brautryðjandi.
With the help of her parents and others in the congregation, this young Christian achieved her goal of becoming a regular pioneer.
Ef ūú hittir ekki, hittirđu samt eitthvađ.
That way if you miss, you still hit something.
Jehóva er mikill og máttugur en samt hlustar hann á bænir okkar.
Jehovah is so great and powerful, yet he listens to our prayers!
Jehóva neitar okkur ekki um þessa gleði. En við vitum samt að í sjálfu sér hjálpar hvorki afþreying né skemmtun okkur að safna fjársjóði á himnum.
Jehovah does not deny us this pleasure, but realistically we know that such activities do not in themselves help us to store up any spiritual treasures in heaven.
Ūiđ voruđ samt mjög líkar.
It was really close, though.
Hvernig blasti það við Adam og Evu að Jehóva elskaði þau en hvað gerðu þau samt?
Adam and Eve were exposed to what evidence that Jehovah loved them, yet how did they respond?
Eđa farđu bara samt til Stanford.
Just go to Stanford anyway.
Hann hafði samt sem áður mikinn áhuga á því hvernig aðrir fylgdu eftir því starfi sem hann hafði sjálfur unnið þar. — Postulasagan 18: 8- 11; 1. Korintubréf 3:6.
Still, he was keenly interested in how others followed up on the work that he had done there.—Acts 18:8-11; 1 Corinthians 3:6.
Höfum samt í huga að slíkt fólk getur ekki haldið neinu leyndu fyrir Jehóva því að „allt er bert og öndvert augum hans“. – Hebr.
However, we should remember that such deceitful people cannot keep anything secret from Jehovah, for “all things are naked and openly exposed” to him. —Heb.
Sumar gætu ūađ samt.
But you could see how some girls could.
Hún veit ūađ, en ég segi henni ūađ samt.
She sort of knows, but I tell her anyway.
Samt hafði hann ‚eigi gleymt lögum Guðs.‘
Yet he had not ‘forgotten God’s regulations.’
Við getum samt sem áður notað jöfnuna til að reikna út breytingarhraðann.
But we can still use the equation to calculate how fast it is changing.
Ūađ sem fađir ūinn gerđi var samt ķlíđandi og rangt.
What your father did, though, is totally unacceptable to me,
Heillandi, klár. En samt ekki nķg.
Charming, bright And yet still not enough
En samt neitar ūú ađ lifa.
And yet you still refuse to live.
Tilfinninganæmi hans viđ uppástungum er algjör, en samt reikar hugur hans.
His susceptibility to suggestion is almost total... but his mind will still take him places.
Nóbelsverðlaunahafi í hagfræði Amartya Sen heldur því fram að það hafi ekki verið alsherjarskortur á hrísgrjónum í Bengal árið 1943: það hafi verið heldur meira þar af hrísgrjónum en til var árið 1941 en þá hafi samt ekki komið til hungursneyðar.
The loss of life did not meet the scale of the 1943 Bengal or earlier famines but continued to be a problem.
Nýlega hefur Netið samt verið að færa sig í aðra átt...
But recently, the internet has been moving in a different direction...

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