Illustration: A parent stands at the open entrance of a Japanese home holding an elaborate picnic lunch packed into several carefully arranged boxes. Tiny vegetable flowers, neatly wrapped rice balls and handmade food picks reveal painstaking preparation.

せっかく

sekkaku

after much effort

Often used when an effort goes to waste. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

せっかくの苦労くろうもあだになった。
All my pains went for nothing.
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せっかく骨ほねを折おったのに、彼かれは失敗しっぱいした。
He has failed after all his labors.
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せっかく採用さいようした派遣社員はけんしゃいんがすぐに辞やめてしまった。
The temporary workers that we managed to employ left work right away.
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