Illustration: A family sits just inside the open sliding door of their home, eating from a carefully packed picnic basket while heavy rain pours onto the garden. A folded picnic blanket and unused sun hats lie beside them.

JLPT N4i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

仕し方かたない

shikatanai

it can’t be helped

Example sentences

  1. 過すぎたことは仕方しかたないよ。

    What’s done is done.

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  2. まあ、済すんだことは仕方しかたないな。

    All right, what’s done is done.

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  3. それは仕方しかたない。

    It cannot be helped.

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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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