N21587/1725

やむを得えない

rarely used kanji formexpressionい adjectiveadjective (generic)

Meanings

cannot be helped, unavoidable

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Example sentences

この決定けっていはやむを得えない選択せんたくだった。

This decision was an unavoidable choice.

事故じこのため、イベントを中止ちゅうしするのはやむを得えない。

Canceling the event due to the accident cannot be helped.

締しめ切きりに間まに合あわないのはやむを得えない事情じじょうがあったからだ。

The reason for missing the deadline was due to unavoidable circumstances.

台風たいふうで試合しあいが中断ちゅうだんされたのはやむを得えないことだと思おもう。

I think it cannot be helped that the game was suspended due to the typhoon.

予算よさんの削減さくげんにより人員じんいんを減へらすことはやむを得えない措置そちであると経営陣けいえいじんは説明せつめいした。

The management explained that reducing staff due to budget cuts was an unavoidable measure.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)