all the same

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

all the same (not comparable)

1. Making no significant difference.

   It's all the same to me if you want to leave early.

Derived terms

• if it's all the same

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)

See also

• all one
• close enough
• distinction without a difference
• much of a muchness
• of a piece
• same difference

 

Adverb

all the same (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.

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

   He knew it was risky. He did it all the same.

   It's sleeting. All the same, I'll take the dog out.

   • 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

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all,‎ same.

   His speeches are all the same.

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)