it is what it is

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play

No etymology was provided for this word.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 這就是事實 /这就是事实 (zhè jiù shì shìshí) — this thing has its own nature
• Chinese Mandarin: 就是這樣的 /就是这样的 (jiùshìzhèyàngde) — this thing has its own nature
• Danish: det er hvad det er — this thing has its own nature
• Dutch: het is wat het is — this thing has its own nature
• Finnish: se on, mitä on — this thing has its own nature
• French: c'est comme ça — this thing has its own nature
• Greek: είναι ό,τι είναι (eínai ó,ti eínai) — this thing has its own nature
• Italian: vada come vada — this thing has its own nature
• Italian: è così — this thing has its own nature
• Japanese: そういうもの (sou iu mono) — this thing has its own nature
• Low German: dat is, wat dat is — this thing has its own nature
• Persian: همین است که هست (hamin ast ke hast) — this thing has its own nature
• Polish: jest jak jest — this thing has its own nature
• Portuguese: a vida é assim — this thing has its own nature
• Portuguese: essa é a vida — this thing has its own nature
• Russian: что есть — this thing has its own nature
• Russian: то есть — this thing has its own nature
• Spanish: así es la vida — this thing has its own nature
• Spanish: es lo que hay — this thing has its own nature
• Swedish: det är vad det är — this thing has its own nature
• Vietnamese: đành vậy thôi — this thing has its own nature
• Bulgarian: какво́то, тако́ва (kakvóto, takóva) — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Chinese Mandarin: 就是這樣的 /就是这样的 (jiùshìzhèyàngde) — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Finnish: niin se vain on — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Finnish: näin se vain on — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Finnish: sellaista se vain on — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Finnish: niin se vain menee — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Hungarian: ez van — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Italian: non c'è più niente da fare — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Japanese: 仕方がない (shikata ga nai) — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Japanese: しょうがない (shō ga nai) — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Lithuanian: bus tas kas bus — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Lithuanian: nieko nepadarysi — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Polish: jest jak jest — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Portuguese: é o que é — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Romanian: aia e — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Spanish: es lo que hay — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances
• Spanish: qué se le va a hacer — phrase expressing resignment to a situation or set of circumstances