Have you ever heard the word “Yappari”?
カジュアルな日本語の表現として、日常生活ではかなりよく使う言葉です。
As a casual Japanese expression, the word is used quite often in everyday life.
街中でもよく見かけますし、漫画やアニメやドラマや映画や小説などでもかなりよく使われます。
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、実は複数の意味がある言葉で、日本語学習者にとっては混乱しやすい表現かもしれません。
However, it’s actually a word with multiple meanings and may be confusing to Japanese language learners.
今回は、「やっぱり」の5種類の使い方を紹介していきたいと思います。
This time, I’d like to introduce five different ways to use “Yappari”.
↑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.
やっぱり猫が好き
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!)”)
僕はやっぱり気付かない
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: Anastrophe)
やっぱり雨は降るんだね
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)
お兄ちゃん!赤ちゃんできたら責任とってね♡
~入れ替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..!)
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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.
やはり俺の青春ラブコメは間違っている。
As I knew, my love-comedy in the springtime of life is wrong.
「やはりな… そうきたか」
“As I expected, you did so”
「悪い。やっぱ辛えわ」
“Sorry. actually it’s painful”
(He said it wasn’t painful, but he changed his mind and came to be honest)
A: Do you have a girlfriend?
B: Oh…. I don’t have….
A: I knew it!!
A: He doesn’t have a girlfriend!
C: He doesn’t look he has! It’s so funny!
やっぱりわたしは猫が好きだ!
やっぱ日本に住みます
やはり!やっぱり!やっぱ!