What does だけど mean?
だけど is a Japanese noun meaning “however” in English. It is written as だけど in hiragana, and dakedo in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N3 vocabulary.
Example sentence
で、電話してみたらしいんだけど、その電話先の相手ってのが問題だったのよ。
And so it seems she tried phoning but it's who was on the other end of that phone that was the problem.