TAKOBOTO

expressing the speaker's feeling that although an ideal action or state isn't possible, at least the next best action or stat is or should be available
Although you may not be able to call this public performance a great success, it produced results of a sort.

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このこうえんはだいせいこうとはいえないまでも、それなりのせいかをもたらした。

Although you may not be able to call this public performance a great success, it produced results of a sort.

かれのろんぶんはけっしておおくないまでも、そのしつはひじょうにたかい。

Although he hasn't published many papers at all, the quality of those he has published is extremely high.

かれがはんにんだとだんていできないまでも、いろいろとあやしいところがある

Even though we can't conclude he's the culprit, he has many suspicious points

このちょうこくはかんぺきとはいえないまでも、ひじょうにかのうせいをかんじさせるさくひんだった。

The sculpture may not be called a perfect work, but it is a work that makes you feel there is much potential.

Ref # Kanzen Master Level 1 - p44 - no.41

LR

Ref # A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar p305

LR

Often used with the verb 言う　{~言えないまでも~}
but can be used with other verbs too.
"We may not be able to call this === but at least we can say it is"

LR

{VERB ない 形} + ないまでも

LR

In ex # 7931, what Japanese word was meant by 可柏ｫ ? This looks like an error, and doesn't translate to anything intelligible. If it was supposed to mean "potential," could 可能 be substituted for it?

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