Expressing "after all" with 毕竟

Structure

Examples

• 别骂他了，他毕竟是孩子。
  Bié mà tā le, tā bìjìng shì háizi.
  Stop yelling at him. He's only a kid, after all.
• 毕竟是冬天，你还是多穿点吧。
  Bìjìng shì dōngtiān, nǐ háishì duō chuān diǎn ba.
  It's winter, after all. You'd better dress more warmly.
• 他不知道也很正常，毕竟他不是本地人。
  Tā bù zhīdào yě hěn zhèngcháng, bìjìng tā bù shì běndì rén.
  It's not strange that he doesn't know. He's not a local, after all.
• 有的玩笑不能再开了，毕竟他们都是大孩子了。
  Yǒu de wánxiào bù néng zài kāi le, bìjìng tāmen dōu shì dà háizi le.
  Some things shouldn't be joked about anymore. After all, they're not little kids anymore.
• 我们不太想搬，毕竟在这儿住了好几年了。
  Wǒmen bù tài xiǎng bān, bìjìng zài zhèr zhù le hǎo jǐ nián le.
  We don't really want to move. After all, we've lived here for so many years.

Words that use this

• 毕竟bì jìngafter all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis