Illustration: Heavy rain falls across a riverside park, flattening the grass and making puddles around a picnic blanket. Beneath a broad umbrella, two friends nevertheless sit comfortably with an open lunch box between them, laughing as one offers the other a rice ball.

JLPT N2expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

にもかかわらず

ni mo kakawarazu

despite, in spite of

Example sentences

彼かれは大雪おおゆきにもかかわらず来きました。
He came in spite of the heavy snow.
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雨あめにもかかわらず出発しゅっぱつした。
He started in spite of the rain.
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年としにもかかわらず彼かれは健康けんこうだ。
He is in good health in spite of his age.
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