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# vain — English to Ukrainian

How English *vain* is translated into Ukrainian in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [vain in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/vain/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: vain (86). By style: everyday 17 · biblical 69.

## марно

Used about 31 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 26). Forms: марна, марно, марні.

- All our efforts were in **vain**.
  Усі наші зусилля були **марні**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#23353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23353) [\#6319660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6319660))

- Did you suffer so many things in **vain**, if it is indeed in **vain**?
  **Марно** стільки ви терпіли? Коли б тільки марно!
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 3:4)

- All their efforts were in **vain**.
  Всі їхні зусилля були **марні**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#305272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305272) [\#6486525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6486525))

- Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is **vain**.
  Пішли нам поміч в тїснотї! **Марна** надїя на людську защиту.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 108:12)

- I tried in **vain** to open it.
  Я **марно** намагався відкрити його.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#41858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41858) [\#501301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/501301))

## надармо

Used about 6 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 6).

- I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in **vain**?
  А скоро я винуватий, так чого **надармо** й силкуватись?
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 9:29)

- The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In **vain** they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
  Міх перестав роздувати, огонь пожер олово; плавильник плавив **надармо**: ледачі не віддїлились.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 6:29)

- Our eyes still fail, looking in **vain** for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
  Наші ж очі аж умучились, визираючи **надармо** підмоги; з башти нашої визирали сторожі того народу, що не міг нас урятувати.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 4:17)

- Bring no more **vain** offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
  Не носїть уже більше дарів **надармо**: паленнє кадила огидло менї; нових місяцїв і субот, та сходин сьвяточних не можу стерпіти: беззаконність поспіль із сьвяткуваннєм!
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 1:13)

## даремно

Used about 5 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3).

- He tried in **vain** to lift up the stone.
  Він **даремно** намагався підняти камінь.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and aandrusiak · checked, community translation · [\#291086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291086) [\#658987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/658987))

- They will know that I am the LORD. I have not said in **vain** that I would do this evil to them.”’
  І спізнають, що я, Господь, не **даремно** погрожував наслати на них таку лиху годину.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 6:10)

- We've been waiting in **vain**.
  Ми **даремно** чекаємо.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#12425234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12425234) [\#12432199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12432199))

- Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in **vain**. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
  Справдї, **даремно** ми надїялись на ті горби й на многість гір; справдї, тілько в Господї, Бозї нашому, спасеннє Ізрайлеве!
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 3:23)

## ваша

Used about 2 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1).

- Your death was not in **vain**.
  **Ваша** смерть не була даремною.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and shanghainese · checked, community translation · [\#2062574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2062574) [\#3080132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3080132))

- Your strength will be spent in **vain**; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
  І будете марнувати силу вашу, і не давати ме земля **ваша** жнива свого, а дерево на полї вашому не давати ме плоду свого.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 26:20)

## віра

Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1).

- But do you want to know, **vain** man, that faith apart from works is dead?
  Чи хочеш же зрозуміти, чоловіче марний, що **віра** без дїл мертва?
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 2:20)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Mary is **vain**, isn't she?
  Мері марнославна, чи не так?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CF and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#6429504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6429504) [\#6461555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461555))

- We protested, but it was in **vain**.
  Ми протестували, але безрезультатно.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#240876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240876) [\#8071590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8071590))

- We tried in **vain** to make him change his mind.
  Ми дарма намагалися переконати його.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and aandrusiak · checked, community translation · [\#285855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285855) [\#504900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/504900))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [Ukrainian grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/uk/) · [translating between English and Ukrainian](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-uk/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into Ukrainian](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-uk/).

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