it can't be helped

English

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Alternative forms

• it cannot be helped

Pronunciation

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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 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 (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, makanita talaga, pakanian tagana, makanian talaga, alang akarapat
• 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