N3 grammar · Lesson 8

「〜わけがない」「〜わけにはいかない」: impossible

大事だいじな友達ともだちの結婚式けっこんしきだから、行いかないわけにはいかない。

「わけがない」: “no way”; 「わけにはいかない」: you can’t in good conscience; 「ないわけにはいかない」: you can’t not, for duty’s sake.

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In this lesson

  1. 01「〜わけがない」: no way, it can’t be
  2. 02「〜わけにはいかない」: you can’t, in good conscience
  3. 03「〜ないわけにはいかない」: you can’t not
  4. 04Compared with similar expressions

Practice

  • Match the phrases to their meanings
  • What would you say?
  • Choose the natural sentence
  • Choose the phrase for each blank
  • Rewrite as asked
  • Put the pieces in order

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