How to use Yappari (Yahari/Yappari/Yappa)

「やっぱり」という言葉ことばを聞きいたことがありますか？
Have you ever heard the word “Yappari”?

カジュアルな日本語にほんごの表現ひょうげんとして、日常にちじょう生活せいかつではかなりよく使つかう言葉ことばです。
As a casual Japanese expression, the word is used quite often in everyday life.

街中まちなかでもよく見みかけますし、漫画まんがやアニメやドラマや映画えいがや小説しょうせつなどでもかなりよく使つかわれます。
You can often see it in the streets, and it’s also used quite often in manga, anime, dramas, movies and novels.

しかし、実じつは複数ふくすうの意味いみがある言葉ことばで、日本語にほんご学習者がくしゅうしゃにとっては混乱こんらんしやすい表現ひょうげんかもしれません。
However, it’s actually a word with multiple meanings and may be confusing to Japanese language learners.

今回こんかいは、「やっぱり」の５種類しゅるいの使つかい方かたを紹介しょうかいしていきたいと思おもいます。
This time, I’d like to introduce five different ways to use “Yappari”.

言葉ことばlanguagedialectwordwordsphrasetermexpressionremarkspeech(manner of) speakinglearning to speaklanguage acquisition

聞くきくto hearto listen (e.g. to music)to askto enquireto queryto hear aboutto hear ofto learn ofto follow (advice, order, etc.)to obeyto listen toto comply withto hear (e.g. a plea)to grant (a request)to accept (e.g. an argument)to give consideration toto smell (esp. incense)to sample (a fragrance)to taste (alcohol)to try

表現ひょうげんexpressionpresentationrepresentationnotation

日常にちじょうeverydaydailyordinaryusualroutineregular

生活せいかつlivinglife (one’s daily existence)livelihood

街中まちなかdowntownthroughout the town

見かけるみかけるto (happen to) seeto noticeto catch sight of

漫画まんがcartooncomiccomic stripmanga

映画えいがmoviefilm

小説しょうせつnovel(short) story

実はじつはas a matter of factby the wayto tell you the truthto be honestfrankly

複数ふくすうpluralmultipleseveral

意味いみmeaningsignificancesense

学習者がくしゅうしゃlearnerstudentscholar

混乱こんらんturbiditycloudiness (of a liquid)opacitymuddiness (e.g. water, mind, consciousness)disorderchaos

今回こんかいthis timenow

種類しゅるいvarietykindtypecategorycounter for kinds, species, etc.

使い方つかいかたway to use somethingtreatmentmanagement (of help)

紹介しょうかいintroductionpresentationreferrallisting

思うおもうto thinkto considerto believeto reckonto think (of doing)to plan (to do)to judgeto assessto regardto imagineto supposeto dreamto expectto look forward toto feelto be (in a state of mind)to desireto wantto recallto remember

↑In fact, everything I’m about to show you is explained very well in this video, lol.
(However, the fifth “should have” explained in this video is a bit different from the native sense, so I supplemented the explanation for it)

[ やっぱり(Yappari)’s five usages ]

１．As I knew

２．As expected / As I thought

３．After all / In the end

４．On second thought / Actually (←You changed your mind)

５．Using Yappari, you can emphasize “should have”
(Yappari doesn’t have any meaning of “should have” in itself. It can only help emphasizing “should have (すればよかった)”. Depending on a context, sometimes it can be just emphasizing, and sometimes it can be the same meaning to 1-4)

You can simplify them into just three if you want:
1. As I knew / As I thought / As expected
2. After all / In the end
3. On second thought / Actually (←You changed your mind)

Note: sometimes it can be quite interchangeable each other

Okay, from now on, I’m gonna show you examples!

I found a good explanation on MLC.

やっぱり猫ねこが好すき
After all, I like/love cats.
(Cats are annoying sometimes, but she likes cats after all. I’ve never read this book but it’s very clear since she says “きゃーやめてーッ (Noo, stooop!)”)

僕ぼくはやっぱり気付きづかない
After all, I don’t notice.
(I’ve never read this novel, but I can imagine he had a lot of opportunities to notice something, but he couldn’t notice every time)

やっぱり妹いもうとがすきっ！
I love my younger sister after all!
(This is most likely an eroge. I guess the protagonist boy had multiple girls to choose, but he chose his own sister in the end)

「やっぱりアキトだ！これからずっとこの艦かんにいるんだよね？」
“As I thought, it was you, Akito! I guess you’ll stay in this warship from now on, right?”
(She saw Akito from a distance and thought it was him)

「やっぱりいるのよ！チュパカブラは！！」
“As I expected, Chupacabra does exist!!”
(You can also say チュパカブラはやっぱりいるのよ！！ By changing the order like this picture, you can emphasize the meaning more. This technique is called 倒置法とうちほう: Anastrophe)

やっぱり雨あめは降ふるんだね
I knew it would rain / I knew it was gonna rain / As I expected, it started to rain / It does rain after all.
(↑Not sure which one is the best. I guess totally interchangeable)

やっぱり英語えいごをしゃべりたい！
I want to speak English after all.
(I guess she’s failed many times to learn English, but she didn’t give up)

お兄にいちゃん！赤あかちゃんできたら責任せきにんとってね♡
～入いれ替かわったらやっぱりエロいことしちゃうよね～
Onii-chan! Take a responsibility if I get pregnant♡
~As expected, we’ll do something erotic if we exchange our body, right? ~
(I covered her breast for your security reason. I’m sorry..!)

Yes,it's called "Crime fighting" in Japan. pic.twitter.com/fQKQfAv28L

— Tsuchinoko's Spring Moods (@ZeroT_H) August 14, 2020

By the way, やっぱり has 2 siblings that have exactly the same meaning:

やはり(Yahari) 　The most formal version
やっぱり(Yappari)　 Casual version of Yahari. Probably the most common one.
やっぱ (Yappa)　Very casual version of Yahari.

やはり俺おれの青春せいしゅんラブコメは間違まちがっている。
As I knew, my love-comedy in the springtime of life is wrong.