it can't be helped

English

English phrasebook

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Alternative forms

it cannot be helped

Pronunciation

Audio (General Australian): (file)

Phrase

it can't be helped

(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 ʔastaṭīʕ ḏālik)
Chinese:
Hakka: 無法度 / 无法度 (mò fap-thu)

Hokkien: 無法度 / 无法度 (zh-min-nan) (bô hoat-tō͘), 無辦法 / 无办法 (bô pān-hoat)

Mandarin: 沒辦法 / 没办法 (zh) (méi bànfǎ)
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 (ja) (shō ga nai), 如何せん (いかんせん, ikansen), やむをえない (ja) (yamu wo enai)
Kapampangan: makanita tagana, pakanita tagana, pakanian tagana, makanian tagana, alang akarapat, alang agawa
Korean: 확증이 없다 (hwakjeung'i eopda), 별 도리가 없다 (byeol doriga eopda), 어쩔 수 없다 (eojjeol su eopda), 할 수 없다 (hal su eopda)
Maori: e taea (hoki) te pēwhea
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: nic się z tym nie da zrobić
Portuguese: não há o que fazer
Romanian: ce sa-I faci, n-ai incotro
Russian: ничего́ не поде́лаешь (ničevó ne podélaješʹ), ничего́ не попи́шешь (ru) (ničevó ne popíšešʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: chan eil cothrom air
Spanish: no hay más remedio
Swedish: det kan inte hjälpas
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: çaresi yok, başka yolu yok, yapacak bir şey yok
Ukrainian: нічо́го не вді́єш (ničóho ne vdíješ)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can