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JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

無む力りょく

muryoku

powerless, helpless

Example sentences

  1. 人間にんげんは自然しぜんの前まえには無力むりょくだ。

    Human beings are powerless before nature.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 我々われわれは無力むりょく感かんを克服こくふくしなければならないであろう。

    We will have to get over the feeling of helplessness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 全まったく一人ひとりぼっちにされて彼女かのじょはとても孤独こどくで無力むりょくだと感かんじているに違ちがいない。

    How lonely and helpless she must feel left all by herself!

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 無力

  • 無nothingness; noneOnム・ブKunない
  • 力power; strengthOnリョク・リキ・リイKunちから

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