even if one says

(archaic) a man of class; a great man

(of a person) all right; okay; in good health; uninjured / (of an object) all right, unbroken, still working / certain, correct, certifiable / (after the te form of a verb) indifferent, unconcerned

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to say, to tell somebody / to call, to name, to give a name / to cry, to call, to make a noise (such as an animal)

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

past tense and perfective aspect of 言う (iu, yū) [godan]

nonetheless, although, be that as it may