Word · 単語
果たして
Reading はたして
as was expected
- 1 as was expected, just as one thought, sure enough
- 2 really, actually, ever — used in interrogative and hypothetical sentences
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
その知らせははたして本当だろうか。
Can the news be true?
sense 2 · really
だめだろうと思っていたが果たして失敗だった。
I was afraid it would not work out well and sure enough it failed.
sense 1 · as was expected
そのニュースははたして本当かしら。
Can the news be true?
sense 2 · really
そのうわさは果たして本当だろうか。
Can the rumor be true?
sense 2 · really
はたして彼の話は本当だろうか。
Can his story be true?
sense 2 · really