~N+にしても and N+にしては mean the same?

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unscathed18 New member
From: Barcelona Registered: 2012-07-12 Posts: 1

Look at these both grammar points:
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=nishitemo
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=nishitewa

On the other hand we have this "~にしても":
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php? … Cnishitemo

The latter one can take Nouns, adjectives and Verbs in comparison with the first one.

Does anybody know if are the same? Perhaps we should put them altogether.

P.S: Bytheway, I've been adding my thoughts and editions in this website since all this grammar points were all done a mess. But know I have this confusion.

The only entry point I can relate ~にしても is with ~にしては. They hold the same meaning so far.

Last edited by unscathed18 (2013 September 17, 10:34 am)

yudantaiteki Member
Registered: 2009-10-03 Posts: 3619

They are not the same, in fact, they have very different meanings.

冬にしては暖かいね。 - For winter, it's pretty warm.
冬にしても寒いね。 - Even for winter, it's cold.

にしては is something that is opposite your expectations, にしても is something that goes beyond your expectations (but not opposite). 

I'm not sure about that second にしても there; it's more common in the other forms (にせよ etc.)

howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

one has mo, the other doesn't. so they're different. the example in the previous post is perfect to illustrate the difference.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2013 September 17, 9:19 pm)

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SomeCallMeChris Member
From: Massachusetts USA Registered: 2011-08-01 Posts: 787

I think the difference between にしては and いしても has been handled.

However, I don't think it's smart to unify the standalone にしても entry into the にせよ entry. I don't know a rule for it, but there's a lot of phrases that will use one over the other.

You are more likely to find 夏にしても暑い and more likely to find 外も内も同じです。どちらにせよ暑いです。 That is, Xにしても is more likely to be 'even for X' and Xにせよ is more likely to be 'whether or not X' or just, well 'Xever' for a question word X (eg, whatever/whichever/whoever/whenever ).

It's not that you can't find the reverse to some extent and not that there isn't overlap in meaning, but I don't think it does anyone a service to combine terms that are not purely interchangeable into a single grammar point, because they aren't the same grammar point.

I'd take にしても out of the いせよ point and make it a 'related term' rather than combine the two into one. 

I can't say I'm familiar with にしろ enough to say if it's really interchangeable with にせよ or にしても, though it looks like it might be にせよ.

I know nothing about にせもよ at all... I've never seen that one that I can recall. Is it a typo for にもせよ for which you have two examples?

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