果か然ぜん

adverb

as expected; sure enough

Literary or somewhat formal adverb indicating that something happened just as anticipated. In everyday speech, やっぱり or 案の定 are more common.

• 果か然ぜん、彼かれは約やく束そくの時じ間かんに現あらわれなかった。

  Sure enough, he didn't show up at the promised time.

• 天てん気き予よ報ほうの通とおり、果か然ぜん午ご後ごから雨あめが降ふり出だした。

  As expected from the weather forecast, it started raining in the afternoon.