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# повинні — Ukrainian to English

How Ukrainian *повинні* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: повинні (310). By style: everyday 296 · biblical 14.

## we

Used about 87 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [we in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/we/).

- Ми **повинні** їх зупинити.
  **We** need to stop them.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3374679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3374679) [\#8720470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8720470))

- Так і ви, коли зробите все, що звелено вам, кажіть: Що слуги ми нїкчемні; бо, що **повинні** зробити, зробили.
  Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘**We** are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”
  ([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 17:10)

- Ми **повинні** бути уважнішими.
  **We** need to pay attention.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5760201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5760201) [\#5760647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5760647))

- Ми не **повинні** втрачати надію.
  **We** shouldn't lose hope.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3178446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3178446) [\#6062770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6062770))

- Коли ми **повинні** здати звіт?
  When do **we** hand in the report?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by uaspeaker and CM · checked, community translation · [\#66044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/66044) [\#484436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/484436))

## must

Used about 68 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Ми **повинні** її попередити.
  We **must** warn her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rmdas and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1777467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1777467) [\#3729527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3729527))

- Ми **повинні** бути обачними.
  We **must** be cautious.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shanghainese and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1790757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1790757) [\#4102900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4102900))

- Ви **повинні** кинути палити.
  You **must** give up smoking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zaytsev126 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#16514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16514) [\#1919398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1919398))

- Ви **повинні** працювати швидше.
  You **must** work faster.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anjy and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3178286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3178286) [\#7447041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7447041))

- Ми **повинні** здолати своїх ворогів.
  We **must** defeat our foes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5922009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5922009) [\#6592855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6592855))

## should

Used about 65 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · biblical ≈ 3).

- Чому ми **повинні** йти?
  Why **should** we leave?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5852741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5852741) [\#5882283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5882283))

- І знайшли написано в законї, що дав Господь через Мойсея, що сини Ізрайлеві сьомого місяця, в сьвятки, **повинні** перебувати в кучках.
  They found written in the law how the LORD had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel **should** dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
  ([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 · NEH 8:14)

- Ми **повинні** це закінчити.
  We **should** finish this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3178474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3178474) [\#7457295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7457295))

- Ви безчестите мене перед народом моїм за пригорщ ячменю та за шматок хлїба, погублюючи душі, що не **повинні** вмірати, а обіцюючи життє душам, що не годиться їм жити, — тим, що ошукуєте нарід, що любить слухати брехнї.
  You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who **should** not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’
  ([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 13:19)

- Чому вони **повинні** припиняти?
  Why **should** they stop?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5712874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5712874) [\#6688735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6688735))

## find

Used about 25 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25). Meaning: [find in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/find/).

- Ми **повинні** знайти на це час.
  We need to **find** the time to do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Walentinio and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6346124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6346124) [\#10133928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10133928))

- Ми **повинні** дізнатися, що це таке.
  We've got to **find** out what it is.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3310142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3310142) [\#5718699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5718699))

- Ми **повинні** терміново знайти його.
  We need to **find** him right away.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3918197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3918197) [\#5761002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5761002))

- Ми **повинні** дізнатися, що у ящику.
  We have to **find** out what's in the crate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5923915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5923915) [\#6198525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6198525))

## ought

Used about 5 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5). Meaning: [ought in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ought/).

- Любі, коли так Бог полюбив нас, то й ми **повинні** один одного любити.
  Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also **ought** to love one another.
  ([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 · 1JO 4:11)

- Коли ж я помив вам ноги, Господь і Учитель, то й ви **повинні** один одному обмивати ноги.
  If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also **ought** to wash one another’s feet.
  ([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 · JOH 13:14)

- У сьому пізнали ми любов, що Він за нас душу свою положив; і ми **повинні** за братів душі класти.
  By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we **ought** to lay down our lives for the brothers.
  ([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 · 1JO 3:16)

- Та горе вам, Фарисеї! бо даєте десятину з мяти, рути і всякого зїлля, а минаєте суд і любов Божу. Се **повинні** були чинити, да й того не залишати.
  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You **ought** to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  ([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 11:42)

- Горе вам, письменники та Фарисеї, лицеміри! що даєте десятину з мяти, й кропу, й кмину, а залишили важнїще в законї: суд, і милость, і віру. Се **повинні** були робити, да й того не залишати.
  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you **ought** to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  ([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 23:23)

## More sentences

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

- Ви не **повинні** робити це.
  You don't have to do it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anjy and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3356380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3356380) [\#6065173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6065173))

- Том та Мері знають, що **повинні** цим зайнятися.
  Tom and Mary know they have to do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CT · checked, community translation · [\#6519887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6519887) [\#6946660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6946660))

- Ворота **повинні** бути зачинені.
  The gate needs to be closed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4665730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4665730) [\#7988393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7988393))

## Grammar

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