とにかく、試験が終わってほっとしたよ。

anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; at least

examination; test; study; trial; experiment

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

to finish; to end; to close

feeling relieved; (sigh of) relief

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.; used when calling out to someone; used to catch one's breath or get someone's attention; yo!