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# водити — Ukrainian to English

How Ukrainian *водити* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no Ukrainian section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: водити (96). By style: everyday 89 · biblical 7.

## drive

Used about 87 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 87). Meaning: [drive in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/drive/).

- Ти вмієш **водити**, так?
  You can **drive**, can't you?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4011698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4011698) [\#7611211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7611211))

- Том не вміє **водити** машину.
  Tom can't **drive**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ChickenKiev and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2713768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2713768) [\#497877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497877))

- Я вмію **водити** машину.
  I am able to **drive** a car.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aandrusiak and CK · checked, community translation · [\#258399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258399) [\#524894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/524894))

- Вона вміє **водити** машину.
  She can **drive** a car.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#313464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/313464) [\#6927723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6927723))

- Ви вмієте **водити** машину?
  Can you **drive** a car?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#16020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16020) [\#6550791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6550791))

## guide

Used about 2 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2). Meaning: [guide in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/guide/).

- Сказав же приповість їм: Чи може слїпий слїпого **водити**? хиба обидва в яму не впадуть?
  He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind **guide** the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
  ([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 · LUK 6:39)

- Голоду знати не будуть, нї згаги, й не поразить їх спека і сонце; той бо, що милує їх, буде їх **водити** й приведе їх до джерел водних.
  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them, for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will **guide** them by springs of water.
  ([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 49:10)

## lead

Used about 2 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2). Meaning: [lead in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lead/).

- І бачив я дорогу його, та й сцїлю його, і буду **водити** його й потїшати його та й безʼутїшних у него.
  I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will **lead** him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
  ([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 57:18)

- Як пастирь, пасти ме він стадо своє; на руки ягняток брати ме він і носити їх на грудях у себе, а дійні **водити**.
  He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently **lead** those who have their young.
  ([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 40:11)

## More sentences

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

- **Водити** машину — це класно.
  Driving is a lot of fun.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7453797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7453797) [\#8105428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8105428))

- і **водити** муть вас перед старших та перед царів за мене, на сьвідкуваннє їм і поганам.
  Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
  ([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 · MAT 10:18)

- Хиба не маємо власти сестру-жінку **водити**, як инші апостоли, й брати Господнї, і Кифа?
  Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
  ([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 · 1CO 9:5)

## Grammar

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