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Grammar detail: のに
My current mastery of this grammar:
plain form clause
+ のに
means despite, in spite of, even though, albeit
のに is also often used at the end of casual speech to mean something like 'I wish ...' or 'it would have been good if ...'. For example:
One thing to note however is that sometimes the particles の (as a nominalizer) and に (indicating the location something takes place at) can appear together! So when you see のに, it's important to check the context.
In the above example, you see a combination of three particles, each bringing its own meaning: の (to turn the verb that precedes it, 'look', into a noun phrase, 'the act of looking'), に (to indicate that the noun phrase 'the act of looking' is the target of the verb 飽きる), and finally も (meaning 'also', which implies that this sentence is part of a broader context).
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