Although it is a conjunction.
Although it is a conjunction that can be used in different ways. The term or group of terms that allow words or propositions to be linked is called a conjunction .
The term although can be used as an adversative conjunction to achieve the contrast between two ideas . In this case, although is synonymous with but . For example: "I'm a little late, although I think I'll arrive before the start of the performance" , "Today is cool, although yesterday it was colder" , "My sister has already visited twenty countries, although she would like to visit even more nations." » .
If we analyze the first of these examples , we see that although it opposes the "delay" of a subject to the fact of arriving, in any case, on time. In the second example, the conjunction enables an opposition between a "cool" day and a "colder" one, while the third example compares a number of countries visited with the desire to continue visiting new territories.
Although as a concessive conjunction
The concept of although also appears as a concessive conjunction . These conjunctions belong to the group of coordinated conjunctions , which link terms or propositions of identical syntactic level. Concessive conjunctions express an inconvenience or objection to what is expressed in the main sentence, but without this problem preventing its realization.
What a concessive conjunction does is introduce a problem to the protasis ( subordinate clause ), but it does not avoid what is expressed in the apodosis (main clause ): "Even if I feel bad, I will go to work" , "Even though the teacher is very rigorous, he is a fair man" , "Although I don't feel like cooking, I will prepare dinner."
The term although can be used in different ways.
Some considerations
Among the synonyms that the word in question has and that can be used at one time or another based on the meaning sought, we can highlight some such as however , although , despite that , but ...
One of the main problems that exist with the word although is that many people have many doubts about whether it is written together or separately. A doubt that is the result of the fact that it is made up of two elements that function independently such as "even" and "that" .
However, the rules are very clear in this sense: although everything is written together. And this is made very clear by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ).
Although in different expressions
One of the most popular expressions that we have and that we use frequently uses precisely the word that we are now analyzing. We are referring to the idiom: "Even if the monkey dresses in silk, she stays cute." It is an expression of uncertain origin since there are many theories that exist about it. Among those is the one that states that its origin is found in an Egyptian fable.
The meaning of that phrase is that, no matter how much anyone tries to hide their appearance, the truth is that this will not prevent them from doing the same with their way of being, their origins...
In the same way, we cannot ignore the existence of numerous songs that, in their titles, use the word we are addressing. Examples are “Even though you don't know it” by Enrique Urquijo and “Even though I can't see you” by Álex Ubago .