I'm translating a sentence, and I come across the particle も. I remember
learning in my Beginner Japanese class that the particle も can be used to mean
"too" in various situations, but that meaning is not applicable here. So then
I went to [https://jisho.org/search/も](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%82%82),
for some possible alternative meanings. The Japanese sentence is

> 「ここにじっとしていてもしょうがない………か」

I believe a literal, word-by-word translation would be equivalent to the
following:

> Here at patiently to be (も) it can’t be helped…… I guess.

Adding what I think も means, and then turning the sentence into proper English
resulted in the below translation:

> "As far as patiently remaining here it can't be helped...... I guess."

My question is, did I use and therefore translate the particle も correctly,
despite never learning this function of も in my Japanese classes?
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grammar translation particle-も
Does the も particle mean "as far as" in the following sentence?
You can't translate the も alone because it is part of an expression.

This expression is Verb in TE form + も which means 'Even if' or 'Even though'.
Here is a link that will provide you the way you should use it and some
examples (<https://japanesetest4you.com/flashcard/learn-
jlpt-n4-grammar-%E3%81%A6%E3%82%82-temo/>). In the sentence you gave, you have
the verb する in the continuous form (している) and the ても expression is added as a
suffix to している which gives the していても form.

So the translation would give : "Even if he/she is waiting/staying here
patiently, we can't help it ... I guess"
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