THE WORD · N3
どうしても
by all means; at all costs
Adverbe · Expression
畑は今雨がどうしても必要だ。
The field desperately needs water.
Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: \N · French : hortusdei
Parts of speech
Expression · Adverbe
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Other written forms: 如何しても
English dictionary meanings
- by all means
- at any cost
- no matter what
- at any rate
- surely
- whether (one is) willing or not
- willingly or unwillingly
- willy-nilly
- on no account
- by no means
- in the end
- in the long run
- after all
- eventually