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# нїби — Ukrainian to English

How Ukrainian *нїби* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: нїби (55). By style: biblical 55.

## like

Used about 24 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 24). Meaning: [like in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/like/).

- Зникне в Самариї царь, **нїби** та піна на водї.
  Samaria and her king float away **like** a twig on the 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 · HOS 10:7)

- І явились їм подїлені язики, **нїби** огняні, і сїв на кожному з них.
  Tongues **like** fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
  ([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 · ACT 2:3)

- Видом же всї четверо однакові, так **нїби** одно колесо було в другому.
  As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, **like** a wheel within a wheel.
  ([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 10:10)

- І наближились до села, куди йшли, й Він зробив, **нїби** хоче йти далїй.
  They came near to the village where they were going, and he acted **like** he would go further.
  ([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 24:28)

- Зникне він, неначе сон, і не знайдуть його; **нїби** ночная мара, він щезне.
  He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away **like** a vision of the night.
  ([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 20:8)

## More sentences

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

- Здавалось бо, **нїби** вяжемо снопи серед поля; аж ось встав мій сніп, да й стоїть: ваші ж, бачся, снопи постали навкруги, та й уклонились мойму снопові.
  for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
  ([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 · GEN 37:7)

- А не (так тому бути), як нас хулять, і як говорять деякі, **нїби** ми кажемо, що нумо робити лихе, щоб прийшло добре? Праведний суд на таких.
  Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.
  ([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 · ROM 3:8)

- Як же корабельники шукали втїкти з корабля, спускаючи човна на море, роблячи вид, **нїби** хочуть кинути якоря з носу,
  As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
  ([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 · ACT 27:30)

## Grammar

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

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