all the same

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

all the same (not comparable)

Making no significant difference.
It's all the same to me if you want to leave early.

Translations

Translations

East Central German: aanrlaa
Finnish: samantekevä (fi), yhdentekevä (fi)
German: einerlei (de)
Polish: wszystko jedno (pl)
Ukrainian: одна́ково (uk) (odnákovo) (predicative), ба́йду́же (uk) (bájdúže) (predicative)

Adverb

all the same (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.
He knew it was risky. He did it all the same.
- 1996, “Cosmic Girl”, in Travelling Without Moving, performed by Jamiroquai:
  It's a distant solar system / I tried to phone but they don't list 'em / So I asked her for a number all the same
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all,‎ same.
His speeches are all the same.

Synonyms

even so, just the same, still, withal; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Translations

anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless

Afrikaans: om't ewe
Chinese:
Mandarin: 還是／还是 (zh) (háishì), 仍然 (zh) (réngrán), 依然 (zh) (yīrán)
Crimean Tatar: ep bir
Finnish: kuitenkin (fi), siitä huolimatta, yhtä kaikki (fi), silti (fi), joka tapauksessa (fi)
French: néanmoins (fr), tout de même (fr), quand même (fr)
German: trotzdem (de), immerhin (de)
Hungarian: mégis (hu), akkor is, attól még, azért (hu), mégiscsak (hu)
Irish: mar sin féin
Italian: lo stesso, ugualmente (it), comunque (it)
Japanese: それでも (ja) (sore de mo), やはり (ja) (yahari), 依然として (ja) (いぜんとして, izen to shite)
Norman: quànd-mesme (Guernsey)
Norwegian: likevel (no), tross alt
Polish: wszystko jedno (pl) n
Portuguese: mesmo assim
Romanian: tot (ro), totuși (ro)
Russian: всё равно́ (ru) (vsjo ravnó), тем не ме́нее (ru) (tem ne méneje)
Swedish: ändå (sv), i alla fall (sv)

See also

if it's all the same

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