～にしては: “Considering that…”
adept #164
~ 5 Minutes
Introduction
Considering this lesson's length, it's packed full of grammatical goodness!
... Is what I would say if I had to use today's grammar point to come up with a clever opening tag that always makes the user laugh (no matter what).
～にしては: Considering it's X, it's a bit Y...
構成
Casual form verbにしては
Nounにしては
Example:
→ 2月にしては暖かいですね。
"It's warm for February isn't it?”
The ～にしては pattern is all about expressing that something is "Considering X, (unexpectedly) Y", or "for X, (something) is Y", wherein 「にしては」 functions in a similar way to "considering/for".
For instance, if we wanted to say that something was good quality considering it cost 500 yen, we'd want to attach にしては to the (specific) price like so:
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