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malgré tout

French, adverb/mal.ɡʁe tu/

malgré tout is spelled M-A-L-G-R-É-T-O-U-T (10 letters). Malgré tout is a French adverb meaning “still; nevertheless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’on en dise”.

What does malgré tout mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    still; nevertheless

  2. 2

    archaiccome what may; in spite of everything

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’on en dise.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce malgré tout?

  • /mal.ɡʁe tu/
  • \mal.ɡʁe tu\
  • [mal.ɡʁe.tu]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to malgré tout

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

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