adverbial N3 common casual
やっぱり — as expected (casual)
やっぱり
Builds on やはり
Meaning
- as expected / after all — the casual spoken form of やはり
Key sentence
やっぱり彼が一番強かった。
As expected, he was the strongest.
Easily confused with
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Study it in JengoSources Compiled with reference to A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar.