quoi qu'il en soit

Meaning

Sets aside what came before to return to the main point: "whatever the case".

Position and punctuation

at the start of the sentence · a comma after

Example

Quoi qu'il en soit, la décision devra être prise avant la fin du mois.

Be that as it may, the decision will have to be taken before the end of the month.

In the DELF

the C1 synthesis

The trap

Four words, and a frozen subjunctive: quoi qu'il en SOIT. Do not write quoiqu'il, which would be the concessive conjunction plus a pronoun.