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仕方がない 'Shikata nai' or variants of it like 'shikata ga nai', 'shikataga arimasen' can be translated to English as 'there's no choice, it can't be helped, there's no helping' and sometimes also 'can't wait to, be impatient to'.

More often you'll hear しょうがない shouganai, with the same meaning.

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