Let’s learn about "어쩔 수 없다”

어쩔 수가 없어요 : There is no way

[other expressions]

- 어쩔 수(가) 없다. (to younger people or friends)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없네. (to younger people or friends)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없어. (to younger people or friends)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없군! (to younger people or friends)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없구나! (to younger people or friends)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없네요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없어요. (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없군요! (honourific by ‘-요’)

- 어쩔 수(가) 없습니다. (formal; more honourific by ‘스’)

[explanations]

* 어찌하다 / 어쩌다 / 어떻게 하다 : [-여 irregular] do how

- 어찌해야 할지를 모르다 : do not know what to do

- 어찌하여 내 마음을 이렇게 몰라줍니까? : Why can't you see my heart for you?

* 어쩌다 / 어쩌다가 : (1) [=우연히, 뜻밖에] accidentally, by chance, by accident, somehow (2) [=이따금•가끔] at times sometimes, occasionally, (every) once in a while, from time to time, (every) now and then

* 어찌할 수 없다 = 어쩔 수 없다 = 어찌할 방법이 없다 = 어쩔 방법이 없다 : be unavoidable; can’t help

* 어찌할 : 어찌하(the stem of 어찌하다) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense and attributive)

* 어쩔 : 어쩌(the stem of 어쩌다) + -ㄹ(a suffix makes a verb future tense and attributive)

* 수 : [=방법] a way; a method

* -가 : a particle makes 수 the topic of the sentence after a word ends ina vowel

* 없다 : be not; don’t exist; there is not; there are not

* 없습니다 : 없(the stem of 없다) + -스(a suffix makes a verb more honourific) + -ㅂ니다(an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix)

* a verb + -다 / -네 / -어 : a non-honourific descriptive verb ending suffix

* a verb + -군! / -구나! : a non-honourific exclamatory verb ending suffix

* a verb + -네 / -어 / -군! + -요 : an honourific verb ending suffix

* a verb + -습니다 / -ㅂ니다 : an honourific descriptive verb ending suffix