Illustration: At an apartment entrance, a parent is dressed to leave but remains caught among several small demands. A child holds up a shoe with a broken lace, the household cat has settled inside the open shopping bag, and another family member offers a leaking lunch container wrapped in a towel.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

なんだかんだ

nandakanda

one thing or another

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは、なんだかんだ言いって支払しはらいを延期えんきした。

    He delayed payment on some pretext or other.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. なんだかんだ言いっても、やっぱりまだトムのことが好すきなんでしょ？

    You can spin it however you like, but the truth is that you still like Tom, don’t you?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 何なんだかんだ言いってもまだ子供こどもだ。

    After all, (he) is still only a child.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

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