だけに details
write + all the more so
kaku dake ni
all the more so; given how much X — the extent of the reason sets the size of the result
地元のチームだけに、負けたときのショックがでかい。
jimoto no chiimu dake ni, maketa toki no shokku ga dekai.
It being the home team, the sting of a loss is that much worse. casual
今回は準備に時間をかけただけに、結果が出なかったのは悔しい。
konkai wa junbi ni jikan o kaketa dake ni, kekka ga denakatta no wa kuyashii.
Having put so much time into preparing this time, coming away with nothing stings all the more. neutral
- dictionary form
- i-adjective
- na-adjective
- noun
Examples
all the more so — the reason is weighed, and the result lands with a force to match
地元のチームだけに、負けたときのショックがでかい。
jimoto no chiimu dake ni, maketa toki no shokku ga dekai.
It being the home team, the sting of a loss is that much worse. casual
今回は準備に時間をかけただけに、結果が出なかったのは悔しい。
konkai wa junbi ni jikan o kaketa dake ni, kekka ga denakatta no wa kuyashii.
Having put so much time into preparing this time, coming away with nothing stings all the more. neutral
彼は現場を長く見てきただけに、説明が具体的だ。
kare wa genba o nagaku mite kita dake ni, setsumei ga gutaiteki da.
Precisely because he has spent years on the floor, his explanations are concrete. neutral
長年取引のある会社だけに、今回のご判断は残念でなりません。
naganen torihiki no aru kaisha dake ni, konkai no go handan wa zannen de narimasen.
Coming from a company we have dealt with for so many years, this decision is all the more disappointing. formal
Formation
{V}だけにattaches to dictionary formplain clause + だけにattaches to plain clause{I}だけにattaches to i-adjective{NA-stem}なだけにattaches to na-adjective{N}だけにattaches to noun
Notes
the proportion showing on the surface. Unlike だけあって it is free to end
in disappointment.
Related patterns
Similar
だけあって passes a verdict, always favourable, that the result MATCHES what X promised (さすがプロだけあって速い); だけに commits to no valence and takes an unwelcome result freely — 期待していただけにがっかりした is ordinary, while ×期待していただけあってがっかりした is not.
ので gives a reason as flat circumstance and says nothing about how much of it there was; だけに reads the reason as a QUANTITY and makes the result follow in proportion, so an intensifier (よけいに, なおさら, 一層) stands unaided in its main clause where after ので it needs earlier context to lean on.
だけに weighs the reason as an amount and makes the result follow in proportion to it; からこそ weighs nothing and only rules the rival causes out, so its main clause reaches for an explanatory のだ that names this reason as the account (難しいからこそ、やる価値があるんだ).
Lookalikes
The same だけ, and the に flips the reading — 好きなだけ食べる limits an amount ("eat as much as you like"), while 好きなだけに reasons from the extent of it ("precisely because he likes it"); a learner who hears "only" in だけに gets the sentence backwards.