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詮無い (せんない, sennai) Japanese meaning: unavoidable | Kotomora
Conjugation 詮無い · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 詮せん 無な い 詮せん 無な くない Polite 詮せん 無な いです 詮せん 無な くないです also 詮せん 無な くありません Past polite 詮せん 無な かったです 詮せん 無な くなかったです also 詮せん 無な くありませんでした Past 詮せん 無な かった 詮せん 無な くなかった Te-form 詮せん 無な くて 詮せん 無な くなくて Adverbial 詮せん 無な く Conditional 詮せん 無な ければ 詮せん 無な くなければ Tara conditional 詮せん 無な かったら 詮せん 無な くなかったら
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Now that it has come to this, it's no use worrying about it.
I had no choice but to accept my unavoidable fate.
Kanji 詮 discussion, methods called for, selection 無 nothingness, none, ain't Related words 仕し 方かた ない More common and colloquial than 詮無い, used in everyday speech for 'it can't be helped'.
やむを 得え ない Formal expression meaning 'unavoidable' or 'there is no other way'; more objective and less literary than 詮無い.
Written forms 詮せん 無な い Usage 25%
Standard kanji spelling for this literary adjective.
詮せん ない Usage 50%
Variant spelling with okurigana ない instead of 無い.
せんない Usage 25%
Kana spelling; may be used when the kanji 詮 is considered difficult or obscure.
Etymology The word is composed of 詮 (せん, 'effect; result') and 無い (ない, 'not exist'), literally meaning 'without effect' or 'fruitless', which extended to 'unavoidable' or 'no help for it'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it has been used in classical and literary Japanese.
