HSK 4 Connectors & compound sentences
无论 … 都 …
No matter… with 无论…都…
Structure 无论 + variable,都 + result
无论…都… (wúlùn… dōu…) says the result doesn’t change whatever happens: 无论多忙,他都坚持锻炼 = "no matter how busy he is, he always exercises". After 无论 comes an "open" part (a question word like 谁/什么/怎么, or A 还是 B); 都 (or 也) closes with the constant result. 不管 is its colloquial version.
Examples
- 无论多忙,他都坚持锻炼。
No matter how busy he is, he keeps exercising.
- 无论你说什么,我都不信。
No matter what you say, I don’t believe it.
- 无论谁来,我都欢迎。
Whoever comes, I welcome them.
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