Construction · C2 · Neutral to formal · concise and often evaluative
for all
fer AWL Stress all and the key noun in the concessive phrase.
Say that a quality, advantage, effort, or apparent fact does not change a contrasting result.
uprkos; i pored; bez obzira na
Use it
For all her experience, Mina still checks every figure twice.
Experience might suggest confidence, but it does not remove her caution.
The campaign attracted little attention for all the effort behind it.
A large amount of effort failed to produce the expected result.
Build the sentence
for all + possessive or determiner + noun phrase, contrasting clause
Memory scene
Gather all the evidence on one side—every talent, effort, and advantage—then watch the opposite result remain standing.
Watch out
This concessive for all is followed by a noun phrase, not normally a full finite clause: For all his confidence, ... . Do not confuse it with for everyone or with for all I know.
Nearby language
The closest general preposition and more transparent for learners.
Introduces a full clause, while concessive for all normally introduces a noun phrase.
A separate idiom meaning that something may be true because the speaker does not know otherwise.
Make it yours
Aplikacija ima mnogo mana, ali je i dalje pouzdana kada je najpotrebnije.