no matter how
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3.2
- idiom
:
por muy ... que
- You can make people feel awesome no matter how old they are.
- no matter how much
- no matter how hard
- no matter how many
That's fine, no matter how conscious you are.
- That's fine, no matter how conscious you are.
- And every gift counts, no matter how small, it all counts.
- They have a lot of the same characteristics no matter how they express them.
- He won't raise up no matter how much you insult him.
- So it feels like no matter how small the task is, you're progressing.
- I believe in life after love, no matter how hard I try.
- You can't remove your own perspective no matter how hard you try.
- Make this process as fair as possible, no matter how long it takes to complete it.
- For me, no matter how much I didn't want it to happen, it did.
- You know, it's no matter how smart you are, there's always somebody smarter.
Examples
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You just keep doing what it looks like you're supposed to be doing, no matter how crazy it seems.
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'Cause she reminded me that no matter how alone we feel, no matter how far away from home we might be, we're still underneath the same sky as the people we love.
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Our door will not close no matter how you pull it.
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Nobody is worth that, no matter how important they may seem.
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Some died no matter how much we tried.
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You can only be at peace when you find the right place, no matter how hard things may be.
Fiction book (1996) -
The cause is too important to abandon, no matter how impossible it may become.
Fiction book (2000) -
Nothing, no matter how good or how pure, is free of decay.
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If her heels got stuck between them, she couldn't free herself, no matter how much effort she made.
Fiction book (1996) -
We will push forward with our plans, no matter how difficult the challenges are.
Synonyms
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1.8
In whatever way something happens
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'no' + 'matter' (i.e. 'it is of no importance') with 'how' (manner/degree), so its meaning 'regardless of the way or degree' is directly inferable from the constituents. This negation+noun+adverbial pattern is common across languages and follows regular compositional logic, so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily understand it.
Etymology
No matter how shows a simple scene: imagine trying many ways to open a locked door but the problem stays the same. The part no matter means the thing does not change and how points to the different ways tried, so no matter how means 'whatever you do'.