Illustration: At a family gathering in a Japanese apartment, a homemade birthday cake has collapsed sideways on its plate. Two relatives are still pointing at the tilted layers and gesturing over whose handling caused the damage.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

ともあれ

tomoare

anyway, in any case

Example sentences

  1. 何なにはともあれありがとう。

    Thank you all the same.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 何なにはともあれ、大事だいじにいたらなかったのは、不幸中ふこうちゅうの幸さいわいであった。

    At any rate, that it had ended without serious incident was a small mercy.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ともあれ、文人ぶんじんが社会しゃかいに定着ていちゃくしなんらかの影響力えいきょうりょくを持もち始はじめた証左しょうさでもある。

    Anyway, this shows that the status of Bunjin was established in society and began to have an influence to some extent.

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

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