even if

English

Conjunction

even if

1. Regardless of whether; irrespective of (something happening or being the case). (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   I'm going to go for a picnic tomorrow even if it rains all day.

   • 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:

     Even if you find one that has money and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling.

2. Despite the fact that; although; even though.

   She is a leader, even if she has many enemies.

Translations

irrespective of

• Albanian: edhe nëse
• Bikol Central: dawa (bcl)
• Catalan: fins i tot si
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 即便 (zik¹ bin⁶), 就算 (zau⁶ syun³)

  Mandarin: 即使 (zh) (jíshǐ), 即便 (zh) (jíbiàn), 就是……也…… (jiùshì ... yě ...), 就是……還…… / 就是……还…… (jiùshì ... hái ...), 哪怕 (zh) (nǎpà), 就算 (zh) (jiùsuàn)

  Wu: 末……也……, 再……也……, 做 (⁵tsu), 縱 / 纵, 即使……也……, 就算, 就是, 哪怕, 也怕 (¹a-pho)

• Esperanto: eĉ se
• Finnish: vaikka (fi), vaikkakin (fi)
• French: même si (fr)
• Georgian: რომც (romc), რომც კი (romc ḳi), თუნდ (tund), თუნდაც (tundac), კიდევაც (ḳidevac), მაშინაც კი (mašinac ḳi)
• German: selbst wenn
• Greek: ακόμα και αν (akóma kai an)

  Ancient: εἴπερ (eíper)

• Hebrew: גם אם (gam im), אפילו אם (afílu im)
• Hungarian: még ha
• Ingrian: hot i, vaikko
• Italian: anche se
• Japanese: 縦え (tatoe), 縦しんば (yoshimba)
• Khiamniungan Naga: tèilǜkǖhò
• Khiamniungan Naga: tèilǜkǖhò
• Latin: etsī (la), etiamsī (la), tametsī (la)
• Nahuatl: mazannel
• Northern Kankanay: olay no
• Norwegian: selv om (no)
• Polish: niezależnie od (kogoś/czegoś), bez względu na (kogoś/coś), nawet jeśli
• Portuguese: mesmo se
• Romanian: chiar dacă (ro)
• Russian: да́же е́сли (ru) (dáže jésli)
• Spanish: aunque (es), incluso / aun si
• Swedish: även om (sv), oavsett (sv)
• Tagalog: kahit na
• Vietnamese: cho dù