只好 (אין ברירה אלא לעשות)

Accept the remaining option

• Tickets are sold out, leaving you to return home.
• there's no没有méi yǒuticket票piào，have to只好zhǐ hǎogo home回家huí jiā。 — The speaker accepts returning home as the available fallback.

Build the form

• The pattern in this lesson is have to只好zhǐ hǎo (have no choice but to). Locate it in the original interlinear examples below.
• Keep the words in their demonstrated positions; the pattern must fit the intended situation as well as the sentence form.

there's no没有méi yǒuticket票piào，have to只好zhǐ hǎogo home回家huí jiā。

Read examples in context

• In the opening example, there's no没有méi yǒuticket票piào，have to只好zhǐ hǎogo home回家huí jiā。: The speaker accepts returning home as the available fallback.
• Explain who acts, what is described and which time or group is relevant before choosing an English paraphrase.

Know the boundary

• have to只好zhǐ hǎo highlights a constrained choice.
• have no choice or option…不得不bù dé bù may also fit a necessity context; the meanings are not mutually exclusive.

Use the distinction

Read the full reference: HSK 4 grammar — Adverbs.