How to say "unsurprisingly" as in "Someone unsurprisingly did something"?

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to say unsurprisingly; I know that 果然 generally implies that you expect that something is going to happen, but in some contexts I'm not entirely sure if it is most appropriate. For example, if I asked a friend if I could go with him and his family to dinner, I would like to say "John, unsurprisingly, said "of course"" Would this be John 果然 说 “当然可以”。 or is there a better way to imply this?

Answer 1

“意料之中” or "不出意料“ also means "as expected".

There is a wonderful website: https://zaojv.com/ that gives many sample Chinese sentences, but it is all in Chinese -- no English explanation.

Answer 2

You can't say unsurprisingly; it's not a word in English. You can say surprisingly (means unexpected surprise)