Learn Japanese: watashitachi wa toshi ni ichido shika umi ni ikanai.

私わたしたち　は　年とし　に　一いち度ど　しか　海うみ　に　行いかない。watashitachi wa toshi ni ichido shika umi ni ikanai.

We go to the sea only once a year.

From Lesson 327:Saying only or nothing but with しか·Japanese

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Breakdown of watashitachi wa toshi ni ichido shika umi ni ikanai.

はwa

topic particle

にni

at; on; in; to; for [indirect object particle]

only, just; nothing but, no more than

Used together with a negative verb.

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shika watashi wa hyakuen shika motte inai.kare wa nihongo shika hanasemasen.kono tori wa nihon ni shika sunde imasen.kono menyuu ni wa bejitarian no ryouri ga hitotsu shika nai.

Nihon-shiki romanizationwatasi ha tyuugoku kara kimasita Hepburn romanizationwatashi wa chuugoku kara kimashita