彼に頼まれたことをやるより他に仕方がなかった。

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彼 に 頼まれた こと を やる より 他 に 仕方 が なかった 。

English Translation

I had no choice but to do what he asked.

Furigana

彼(かれ)に頼(たの)まれたことをやるより他(た)に仕方(しかた)がなかった。

Romanji

Kare ni tanomareta koto o yaru yori ta ni shikata ga nakatta.

Words

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

頼む (たのむ)

to request; to beg; to ask; to call; to order; to reserve; to entrust to; to rely on

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

遣る (やる)

to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study; to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.); to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer; to make (a vehicle) go faster; to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise; to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke; to hold (a performance); to perform; to show; to ease (one's mind); to harm; to injure; to kill; to have sex with; to live; to get by; to get along; to do ... completely; to do ... broadly; to do ... to a great distance; to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status); to do ... to (sometimes with negative nuance); to make active efforts to ...

より (より)

than; from; out of; since; at; on; except; but; other than; more

他 (た)

other (esp. people and abstract matters)

仕方 (しかた)

way; method; means; resource; course

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

無い (ない)

nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...

Kanji

彼

Readings: ヒ、 かれ、 かの、 か.の

Meanings: he, that, the

頼

Readings: ライ、 たの.む、 たの.もしい、 たよ.る

Meanings: trust, request

他

Readings: タ、 ほか

Meanings: other, another, the others

仕

Readings: シ、 ジ、 つか.える

Meanings: attend, doing, official, serve

方

Readings: ホウ、 かた、 -かた、 -がた

Meanings: direction, person, alternative