にも拘(かか)わらずDespite, In spite of, Regardless, Nevertheless

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  okayfrog

  I keep getting this mixed up with 割に. Like, there are example sentences where the bolded text will be “Despite” and it’ll say “Contrastive, Unexpected” and I’m not sure where to use 割に and where to use にもかかわらず and I’ve gotten the two of them mixed up more times than I can count over the past year.

  It feels like this should be one of those cases where it doesn’t mark you wrong, but instead says something like “try a different grammar point” or whatever it says. But since it doesn’t say that, I must be missing something… ?

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  casual

  If I look through example sentences for にもかかわらず, I think actually none of them can be replaced with わりに. And some examples in わりに can probably be replaced with にもかかわらず, but the meaning will become a little different.

  I think of (X)わりに(Y) as “for someone/something that is X, this is surprisingly Y”.
  And (X)にもかかわらず as “in spite of”.
  Both can be translated as “despite”, but the meaning is different, isn’t it.

  Maybe looking through explanations of these constructions in another source/textbook could help to contrast them?

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  okayfrog

  what’s throwing me off is that in the example sentences for both, they’re both asking for “despite” and they both say “Contrastive, Unexpected.” When I see those, I think either grammar point can work and it feels weird when one works and not the other. Just doesn’t make sense to me.