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[idle mortar]

Quoi qu'il en soit, ...
Be that as it may/Whatever it may be.

[rare heart]

ahh dacc, merci!

est-ce que c'est un slang, saying ou quoi?

[idle mortar]

At the end of a question, or how do you mean?

[rare heart]

dans ce context, est-ce que "quoi qu'il en soit" like a saying, an expression or slang?

because i had trouble trouble understanding it

[idle mortar]

It's a somewhat common expression, not slang at all.

[rare heart]

ah okay. does it come in any other forms or conjugation?

[idle mortar]

As far as I know it's an invariable phrase, meaning it doesn't change. I haven't seen it in any other forms.

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dacc, merci!

[distant leaf]

"Quoi que" on its own has a couple meanings, in this case it's like "whatever".

Quoi que je fasse - whatever I do
Quoi que ce soit - whatever it may be

So it's kind of like "Quoi que" + "il en est". En être does have its own meaning in general but in this case I think it might be idiomatic.

"J'en suis" - I'm in/i'll participate (je suis partant·e)
"Tu en es où ?" - Where are you at? (in a project, activity, etc)

In an even more general sense, en replaces a clause that starts with "de" and so you can sometimes think of it meaning something like "of it".

Quoi qu'il en soit - whatever it may be of it.

"Whatever it may be of it" isn't really something we say in English it's just to give you an idea of the vibe of the phrase.

[rare heart]

OHHH ca fait sens mtn

merci!