Basic Grammar 4

8. "but" - でも 
But, a small word, but... There are other "buts" but demo is the most common. Learn this first and you can pick the others up later.

でも (demo) - but 日本語 が 好き でも フランス語 は きらい です。
 nihongo ga suki demo furansugo wa kirai desu.

 I like Japanese, but I hate French.

9. "if" - もし
 We will look at a few examples that actually contain fairly advanced grammar. In other words, to say "if..." you must start with もし moshi-- and this is easy. However, you must also change the verb at the end with a ～ば ba, たら tara, or なら nara or some other conditional.

English	Japanese
If you come.	もし あなた が きたら。 moshi anata ga kitara.
If it's sunny.	もし はれ たら。 moshi hare tara.

もし よければ。。。 
moshi yokereba...
If it is ok with you... [let's do this...]

もし ほしかったら、
moshi hoshikattara,
If you want (it), (when offering something to someone)