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effort

In a sentence
Zdalo sa, že všetky jeho snahy vyšli navnivoč.
All his efforts seemed to have been wasted.
Jeho snaha naučiť sa slovenčinu je obdivuhodná.
His effort to learn Slovak is admirable.
Napriek snahe nestihli vlak načas.
Despite their efforts they did not catch the train on time.
Spoločná snaha priniesla lepšie výsledky.
Joint effort brought better results.
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Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.
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