Illustration: A delivery worker stands at the entrance to a small residential courtyard after heavy rain. Shallow water covers every stepping stone between the gate and the raised front porch; walls and dense shrubs leave no route around it.

JLPT N4expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

仕し方かたがない

shikata ga nai

there’s no other way

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれを待まつよりほか仕方しかたがない。

    All we can do is wait for him.

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  2. 彼かれは逃にげるよりほか仕方しかたがなかった。

    He had no choice but to run away.

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  3. 行いくより他たに仕方しかたがないんだ。

    We have no choice but to go.

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Kanji in 仕方

  • 仕attend; doingOnシ・ジKunつかえる
  • 方direction; personOnホウKunかた

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