I Love Kanji仕方がない (shikataganai)
仕方がない (しかたがない, shikataganai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “there's no (other) way”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- しかたがない
- Romaji
- shikataganai
- Word class
- い-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- there's no (other) way · expression, い-adjective
- cannot be helped; unavoidable; inevitable; (there's) nothing one can do; having no choice · expression, い-adjective
- it's no use (doing); pointless; useless; no good; insufficient · expression, い-adjective · oft. as 〜ても仕方がない
- hopeless (person); annoying; troublesome; awful · expression, い-adjective
- cannot stand it; unbearable; cannot help (doing, feeling); dying (to do) · expression, い-adjective · as 〜て仕方がない or 〜で仕方がない
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 仕方がない
い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present | 仕方がない | しかたがない shikataganai |
| Negative | 仕方がなくない | しかたがなくない shikataganakunai |
| Past | 仕方がなかった | しかたがなかった shikataganakatta |
| Negative past | 仕方がなくなかった | しかたがなくなかった shikataganakunakatta |
| Te-form | 仕方がなくて | しかたがなくて shikataganakute |
| Adverb (~ku) | 仕方がなく | しかたがなく shikataganaku |
| Conditional (~ba) | 仕方がなければ | しかたがなければ shikataganakereba |
Kanji in 仕方がない
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 仕方がない.
仕事しごとwork仕方しかたway仕様しようway仕上がるしあがるto be finished仕上しあげfinish仕掛しかけdevice仕組しくみstructure奉仕ほうしservice仕えるつかえるto serve仕上がりしあがりfinish仕上げるしあげるto finish up仕入れるしいれるto buy (stock, materials, etc.)仕掛けるしかけるto start仕立てるしたてるto tailor
Source: JMdict entry 1305420 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.