VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

やっぱり

hepburn yappari

as expected, after all

Part of speech · adverb

Pattern visualization

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Examples

やっぱり寒いね。
Yeah, it really is cold.
やっぱり家がいい。
After all, home is best.

Collocations

やっぱり (yappari, after all / as expected)やはり (yahari, formal)やっぱりそうか (ah I thought so)やっぱり違う (after all different)やっぱり日本 (after all, Japan)

Mnemonic

Yappari (やっぱり) is "after all" — B + cluster (izakaya conversation, affirmation culture). Surface: colloquial of formal yahari. Japanese cluster: (1) izakaya conversation staple — "yappari Nihon ryouri ga ichiban," "yappari biiru da ne" — Japanese self-cultural pride; (2) yappari sou ka (guess confirmed); (3) register split — yappari casual, yahari formal, 矢張り classical kanji. JLPT N5 plus Japans affirmation adverb.

Quick check

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