How to say "altogether" in Japanese
- adverbCovers 'altogether' in the sense 'entirely, without exception': every item or attempt under discussion meets the same result. It works as an adverb and is usually written in kana alone.
- adverbA mimetic adverb: it fits 'altogether' when the whole is treated as one intact unit — kept, taken, or copied exactly as it is, with nothing left out or changed.
- 全部ぜんぶno-adjective, adverbIts core sense is 'all, everything', so it suits 'altogether' when you mean the whole amount or every item, rather than how completely something happens or how intact something stays.
Use 全部 for plain 'all of it, the whole amount'; 「ことごとく」 when everything without exception meets the same outcome; 「そっくり」 when the whole is kept, taken, or reproduced intact, exactly as it is.
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