adverbial N2 common casualpolitewritten
さすがに — even ~ / understandably
さすがに
Builds on さすが
Meaning
- even ~ / understandably / as one might expect — given how extreme the situation is, a natural reaction follows
Concessive — 'as much as I usually manage, under these conditions it's only natural that…'. Concedes a limit.
Key sentence
さすがに毎日カレーは飽きる。
Even I get tired of curry every single day.
Examples
優しい彼も、さすがに怒った。
Even he, gentle as he is, understandably got angry.
さすがに今日は疲れて、もう歩けない。
After all that, today I'm just too tired to walk any more.
Easily confused with
See さすがに in real sentences
Jengo shows さすがに the way you actually meet it: inside real Japanese sentences, so it sticks instead of staying an abstract rule.
Study it in JengoSources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar.