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もかまわず details

もかまわず

heedless of; without caring about — the agent brushes past something they had reason to mind

あいつ、人目ひとめもかまわず大声おおごえいてたよ。

aitsu, hitome mo kamawazu oogoe de naiteta yo.

He was bawling out loud right there, not caring who saw. casual

かれふくよごれるのもかまわず、かわはいって子犬こいぬたすけた。

kare wa fuku ga yogoreru no mo kamawazu, kawa ni haitte koinu o tasuketa.

Heedless of his clothes getting filthy, he waded into the river and rescued the puppy. neutral

Examples

heedless of X — X is something the agent had every reason to mind, and did not

あいつ、人目ひとめもかまわず大声おおごえいてたよ。

aitsu, hitome mo kamawazu oogoe de naiteta yo.

He was bawling out loud right there, not caring who saw. casual

かれふくよごれるのもかまわず、かわはいって子犬こいぬたすけた。

kare wa fuku ga yogoreru no mo kamawazu, kawa ni haitte koinu o tasuketa.

Heedless of his clothes getting filthy, he waded into the river and rescued the puppy. neutral

委員いいん一人ひとりが、周囲しゅうい制止せいしもかまわずみずからの主張しゅちょうかえしており、議事ぎじとどこおっております。

iin no hitori ga, shuui no seishi mo kamawazu mizukara no shuchou o kurikaeshite ori, giji ga todokootte orimasu.

One committee member keeps restating his own case heedless of those trying to stop him, and proceedings have stalled. formal

Formation

Notes

The noun names what was owed attention — 人目ひとめ, 周囲しゅうい,
迷惑めいわく, 危険きけん; a clause joins through の. なりふりかまわず
("with no thought for appearances") has frozen and drops the も.

Related patterns

Similar

  • にかかわらず is an impersonal claim that a variable does not move an outcome and needs no agent at all (天候てんこうにかかわらず開催かいさいする); もかまわず requires a human who noticed the obstacle and went on anyway, which is why it always carries the speaker's verdict on that person and にかかわらず carries none.

  • Both mark a cost brushed aside, and they name opposite halves of it — てまで names the extreme ACT undertaken (借金しゃっきんしてまでう), もかまわず the OBSTACLE ignored (人目ひとめもかまわずく); てまで is reliably disapproving, while もかまわず only demands a verdict and can just as well admire (危険きけんもかまわずんだ).

Lookalikes

  • Both negate かまう, and the person doing the not-minding is a different one — てもかまわない is the SPEAKER granting permission over someone else's act ("I don't mind if you do"), while もかまわず reports a third party disregarding something; ても構わない never narrates behaviour and もかまわず never grants anything.

  • Same 名詞+助詞+ず shape and both gloss "regardless of", but を問わず is institutional and agentless — a rule waiving a criterion (年齢ねんれいを問わず) — while もかまわず needs a human who KNEW they should mind and pressed on regardless (人目ひとめもかまわず), and always carries the speaker's verdict on them.

Same meaning

regardless of; it makes no difference

PatternAttaches to
にかかわらず
にしろ〜にしろ
にもかかわらず
を問わず
はともかく