しかたがない

Frequency rank: 1,523.
    expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.); adjective (keiyoushi)
  1. there's no (other) way
  2. cannot be helped; unavoidable; inevitable; (there's) nothing one can do; having no choice
  3. it's no use (doing); pointless; useless; no good; insufficient; not enoughoft. as 〜ても仕方がない
  4. hopeless (person); annoying; troublesome; awful
  5. cannot stand it; unbearable; cannot help (doing, feeling); dying (to do)as 〜て仕方がない or 〜で仕方がない
Forms
  • しかたがないFrequency rank: 1,523.
  • しかたがないFrequency rank: 9,054. – 9,076.
  • しかたがない
  • しかたがないFrequency rank: 16,122. – 16,182.