adjective
it doesn''t matter, it''s all the same
A2
Egal means 'it doesn't matter' or 'it's all the same.' It's not gradable and commonly used predicatively: 'Es ist egal' or with a dative person 'Mir ist das egal.' No comparative or superlative. Functions like an adjective/phrase expressing indifference in everyday speech.
Examples
Es wäre ihnen egal gewesen, wenn die Veranstaltung verschoben worden wäre, weil sie ohnehin andere Pläne gehabt hatten.
It would have been all the same to them if the event had been postponed because they had had other plans anyway.
Ob du kommst oder nicht, ist mir egal.
Whether you come or not is all the same to me.
Mir ist egal, was wir essen.
I don't care what we eat.
Details
Mnemonics
picture two identical objects with an equal sign; nothing changes so 'egal'
sounds like 'egg-all' — imagine all eggs being the same (no difference)