어야지 어떡하다
eoyajieotteokhada
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Also spelled eoyajieoteokhada, eoyajieotteokada, oyajiottokhada
what else can you do?
States the only remaining option and then throws up its hands: 그렇게 해야지 어떡하겠어요, 'that's what you have to do, what else is there?'. The 어떡해/어떡하겠어 part is rhetorical — no answer is expected. It is used to accept something with a shrug, sometimes cheerfully, as in 이제 좋아해야지 어떡해, 'well, she has no choice but to like it now'. The ending scales from blunt 어떡해 to polite 어떡하겠습니까.
Register: casual to polite, resigned
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