N2Pattern 51

〜くせに

Formula:

名詞修飾形

Examples & key points

やり方を知らないくせに、口だけは出す。

Yarikata o shiranai kuse ni, kuchi dake wa dasu.

He does not know how it is done and still weighs in.

くせに openly reproaches; met at N3, it sits here against the other concessives

自分もできないくせに、人を責める。

Jibun mo dekinai kuse ni, hito o semeru.

He cannot do it either, yet he blames others.

The subject is someone else; rarely yourself

この組の中で最も感情的です。

Kono kumi no naka de mottomo kanjōteki desu.

It is the most emotional of this set.

にもかかわらず is coolest, のに in between, くせに the barbed one

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