it can't be helped

it can't be helped

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

it can't be helped

1. (idiomatic) It is inevitable. There is no alternative.

Synonyms

• (it is inevitable): there's no getting around it

Translations

it is inevitable

Albanian: nuk mund të bëj diçka me të, nuk mund të bëj diçka me të Arabic: لَا مَفَرّ‎ (lā mafarr), لَا أَسْتَطِيع ذٰلِك‎ (lā ʾastaṭīʿ ḏālik) Chinese: Hakka: 無法度, 无法度 (mò fap-thu) Mandarin: 沒辦法 (zh), 没办法 (zh) (méi bànfǎ) Min Nan: 無法度 (zh-min-nan), 无法度 (bô hoat-tō͘), 無辦法, 无办法 (bô pān-hoat) Czech: nedá se nic dělat Finnish: sille ei voi mitään French: on n'y peut rien, on ne peut rien y faire Galician: non hai que facer German: es lässt sich nicht ändern Hebrew: אין מנוס‎

Hungarian: elkerülhetetlen (hu), menthetetlen (hu), nincs mit tenni, nem tehetünk semmit, nincs más választás Japanese: 仕方がない (しかたがない, shikata ga nai), しょうがない (shō ga nai), 如何せん (いかんせん, ikansen) Korean: 확증이 없다 (hwakjeung-i eopda), 별 도리가 없다 (byeol doriga eopda), 어쩔 수 없다 (eojjeol su eopda) Portuguese: não há o que fazer Romanian: ce sa-I faci, n-ai incotro Russian: ничего́ не поде́лаешь (ničevó ne podélaješʹ), ничего́ не попи́шешь (ničevó ne popíšešʹ) Scottish Gaelic: chan eil cothrom air Spanish: no hay más remedio Swedish: det kan inte hjälpas Turkish: çaresi yok, başka yolu yok Ukrainian: нічого не вдієш (ničóho ne vdíješ)