はもちろん details
write + N goes without saying — and something less obvious holds as well
kaku nohamochiron
N goes without saying — and something less obvious holds as well
この店、味はもちろん値段も手頃なんだよ。
kono mise, aji wa mochiron nedan mo tegoro na n da yo.
This place — the food goes without saying, and the prices are reasonable too. casual
週末はもちろん、平日の夜も混んでいます。
shuumatsu wa mochiron, heijitsu no yoru mo konde imasu.
Weekends of course, but weekday evenings are crowded too. neutral
- dictionary form
- past
- negative
- negative + past
- noun
- alternant
- formal
Examples
N goes without saying, and the second item is the actual news — the speaker grants the first as too obvious to argue
この店、味はもちろん値段も手頃なんだよ。
kono mise, aji wa mochiron nedan mo tegoro na n da yo.
This place — the food goes without saying, and the prices are reasonable too. casual
週末はもちろん、平日の夜も混んでいます。
shuumatsu wa mochiron, heijitsu no yoru mo konde imasu.
Weekends of course, but weekday evenings are crowded too. neutral
値段が高かったのはもちろん、味もよくなかった。
nedan ga takakatta no wa mochiron, aji mo yokunakatta.
It was expensive, needless to say, and it didn't taste good either. neutral
当日は、社員はもちろん、ご家族の皆様にもお声がけしております。
toujitsu wa, shain wa mochiron, go kazoku no minasama ni mo o koegake shite orimasu.
For the day itself we have invited employees, of course, and their families as well. formal
Formation
{N}はもちろんattaches to noun{P}のはもちろんattaches to plain form
Variant notes
- もちろん — on its own もちろん is simply "of course" and can answer a question by itself (もちろんです); the はもちろん frame needs a second item after it to be finished.
- はもちろんのこと — the expanded surface, weightier and slower — announcements and written appeals reach for it (安全性はもちろんのこと、価格の面でも), everyday speech rarely does.
Notes
it; it drops only where the second clause states something new instead of
adding another member to the set.
Related patterns
Similar
はもとより hangs off a noun only and belongs to written-formal prose; はもちろん is the everyday neutral member and reaches a clause through の (値段が高いのはもちろん) — put もとより in a conversation and it reads like a press release.
だけでなく weighs both items evenly and claims nothing about how obvious either is; はもちろん grants the first as beyond argument and puts all the news in the second, so a plain two-item list takes だけでなく and a "you'd expect that, but also this" takes はもちろん.
Combines with
The second item is where the も lands, and it is that も that finishes the thought — はもちろん by itself has named only the half nobody was going to dispute.