Learn Japanese: watasitati ha tosi ni itido sika 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。watasitati ha tosi ni itido sika 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 watasitati ha tosi ni itido sika umi ni ikanai.

はha

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.

〜度ど〜do

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