📖LearnModule 8 · Lesson 10 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, first halfUnit 2 · La concesión
De todos modos — anyway
Module 8 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, first half), lesson 10 of 30: De todos modos is the most Spanish thing in this unit: three words that mean anyway. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
de todos modos
anyway
deh TOH-dohs MOH-dohs
de todas formas
in any case
deh TOH-dahs FOHR-mahs
lo compré de todos modos
I bought it anyway
loh kohm-PREH deh TOH-dohs MOH-dohs
caro
expensive (m)
KAH-roh
el conector
the linking word
ehl koh-nehk-TOHR
la exageración
the exaggeration
lah ehk-sah-heh-rah-SYOHN
francamente
frankly
frahn-kah-MEHN-teh
estar equivocado
to be wrong
ehs-TAR eh-kee-boh-KAH-doh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
De todos modos is the most Spanish thing in this unit: three words that mean anyway, all the same, and — with the right shrug — never mind. Era caro, pero lo compré de todos modos.
Y también · And also
De todas formas is its tidier twin. Both sit late in the sentence, which is unusual for a connector, and both let you concede without a conjunction at all — a very natural B2 move. Francamente (frankly) opens the honest version of any opinion.
Ojo · Watch out
de todos modos and de todas formas sit late in the sentence, after the verb: lo compré de todos modos. Not at the front, where a connector usually goes. And estar equivocado is to be wrong — estar, never ser.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with de todos modos.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 10 in Module 8 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.