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どうせ

adverb

Meanings

anyhow, in any case, at any rate, after all, at all, no matter what, regardless, either way
at best, at most

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Example sentences

どうせ失敗しっぱいするなら、最初さいしょからやらなければよかった。

If it was going to fail anyway, I shouldn't have done it from the start.

どうせ彼かれは来こないだろうと思おもっていたら、本当ほんとうに来こなかった。

I figured he wouldn't come anyway, and sure enough, he didn't.

どうせ捨すてるものなら、私わたしにくれませんか。

If you're going to throw it away anyway, could you give it to me?

どうせ私わたしには無理むりだと諦あきらめてしまうのは、もったいない考かんがえ方かただ。

It is a waste to give up thinking that it's impossible for you anyway.

どうせなら、せっかくの機会きかいを最大限さいだいげんに活いかすべきではないだろうか。

If we're going to do it anyway, shouldn't we make the most of this valuable opportunity?

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)