Illustration: At the entrance to a Japanese apartment living room, a cheerful visitor abruptly lowers a large bag of rattling toys to the floor. The parent beside them holds a finger to their lips and extends the other hand toward a baby asleep in a nearby cot, presenting the obvious reason for quiet.

JLPT N2adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

なにしろ

nanishiro

after all, since

Example sentences

  1. 何なにしろ小ちいさい店みせなので、彼かれは会計係かいけいがかりから倉庫係そうこがかりまで多おおくの仕事しごとを一手いってにこなさなければならない。

    Because the store is so small, he has to wear many different hats, from accountant to stock boy.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょはうまくゆかなかったが、なにしろ初はじめてのことだったからね。

    She did not succeed, but after all that was her first attempt.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. なにしろ豆腐とうふ、水みず、昆布こんぶだけが材料ざいりょうであるからそれぞれに高品質こうひんしつなものが求もとめられる。

    After all, tofu, water, and kombu are the only ingredients, so each must be of high quality.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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