Illustration: In a home kitchen, a beautifully prepared sponge cake has fallen into a sink full of washing water and collapsed into floating crumbs and cream. The baker stands with a cake server in one hand and a strainer in the other, both plainly incapable of restoring it.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

どうにもならない

dounimonaranai

hopeless, beyond help

Example sentences

  1. これらの問題もんだいは我々われわれにはどうにもならない。

    We’re getting nowhere with these problems.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 済すんでしまったことをああだこうだ言いってもどうにもならないだろう。

    You can critique it all you want and it won’t change a thing. It’s over.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 当局とうきょくは通貨つうかを安定あんていさせようと懸命けんめいだが、どうにもならない。

    The authorities are striving in vain to stabilize the currency.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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