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# тому — Ukrainian to English

How Ukrainian *тому* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: тому (5 511). By style: everyday 5 195 · biblical 316.

## tom

Used about 3 463 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 463). Meaning: [tom in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/tom/).

- Чому ти віриш **Тому**?
  Why do you believe **Tom**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3552662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3552662) [\#6741288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6741288))

- **Тому** немає куди йти.
  **Tom** has nowhere to go.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2547015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2547015) [\#8055485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8055485))

- **Тому** потрібний ось цей.
  **Tom** wants this one.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1141029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141029) [\#6740163](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6740163))

- **Тому** подобається в'язати.
  **Tom** likes to knit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#37015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37015) [\#6097100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6097100))

- Я передала листа **Тому**.
  I handed **Tom** the letter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6569133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6569133) [\#7680182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7680182))

## tell

Used about 663 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 649 · biblical ≈ 13). Meaning: [tell in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/tell/).

- Що ви розповіли **Тому**?
  What did you **tell** Tom?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1839613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1839613) [\#6903091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6903091))

- Істинно глаголю вам: Легше буде землї Содомській та Гоморській суднього дня, нїж городові **тому**.
  Most certainly I **tell** you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
  ([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 10:15)

- Скажи **Тому**, що ти збрехав.
  **Tell** Tom you lied.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2869338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2869338) [\#7533407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7533407))

- Не дають соломи рабам твоїм, а цеглу, кажуть, вистачайте нам цегли! І се раби твої мучені, а нарід твій вина **тому**.
  No straw is given to your servants, and they **tell** us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
  ([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 · EXO 5:16)

- Скажіть **Тому**, що я йому передзвоню.
  **Tell** Tom I'll call him back.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1877604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1877604) [\#7078847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7078847))

## will

Used about 148 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 108 · biblical ≈ 40). Meaning: [will in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/will/).

- Питання в **тому**, прийде вона чи ні.
  The point is whether she **will** come or not.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CH · checked, community translation · [\#323910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/323910) [\#504037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/504037))

- От і неправ єси в **тому**, відказую я тобі, бо Бог висше людини.
  “Behold, I **will** answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
  ([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 33:12)

- На **тому** місцї дам рости рогові Давида; я приготовив сьвітильника для помазанця мого.
  I **will** make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
  ([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 132:17)

- кожен бо, хто просить, одержує; і хто шукає, знаходить; і хто стукає, **тому** відчиняють.
  For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it **will** be opened.
  ([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 7:8)

- Багацько тих, що, знай, шукають ласки в значних, і кожен друг **тому**, хто дає гостинцї.
  Many **will** entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
  ([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 · PRO 19:6)

## why

Used about 135 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 108 · biblical ≈ 26). Meaning: [why in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/why/).

- «Бабусю, а що це за ягода?» — «Чорна смородина». — «А чому вона червона?» — «**Тому** що зелена».
  "Granny, what kind of berries are these?" "Black currants." "But **why** are they red?" "Because they are green."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Internecivus and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#1633330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1633330) [\#1633341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1633341))

- На що **тому** на сьвітї жити, кого Господь обняв ночною тьмою й загородив дорогу?
  **Why** is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
  ([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 3:23)

- Горе **тому**, хто день Господень бачити хоче! На що він вам — той день Господень? Темрява він, а не сьвітло, —
  “Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! **Why** do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
  ([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 · AMO 5:18)

- Чому? **Тому**, що (шукали праведности) не од віри, а якби од учинків закону; спіткнулись бо на камінь спотикання.
  **Why**? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
  ([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 9:32)

- Хто ж се ти, чоловіче, що змагаєш ся з Богом? Хиба скаже зроблене **тому**, хто зробив його: Нащо зробив єси мене так?
  But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “**Why** did you make me like this?”
  ([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 9:20)

## people

Used about 20 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 20). Meaning: [people in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/people/).

- А люде відказали йому так само: Те й те буде **тому**, хто його вбє.
  The **people** answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”
  ([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 · 1SA 17:27)

- Чи забуває ж коли дївчина свої прикраси, молода княгиня — наряди свої? а нарід мій забув мене — безлїч уже днїв **тому**.
  “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my **people** have forgotten me for days without number.
  ([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 2:32)

- Пророки пророкують лож, сьвященники за їх підмогою управляють, а люд мій любить се. Що ж ви чинити мете, як настане **тому** кінець?
  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my **people** love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
  ([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 5:31)

## should

Used about 13 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 13).

- Се ж життє вічнє в **тому**, щоб знали Тебе, єдиного справдешного Бога, та кого післав єси, Ісуса Христа.
  This is eternal life, that they **should** know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
  ([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 17:3)

- і (що) Він умер за всїх, щоб живі нїколи більш собі не жили, а **Тому**, хто за них умер і воскрес.
  He died for all, that those who live **should** no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  ([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 · 2CO 5:15)

## More sentences

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

- Я їздив до Бостона тиждень **тому**.
  I went to Boston a week ago.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6353061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6353061) [\#7726473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7726473))

- Рік по **тому** він відвідав Радянський Союз.
  A year later, he visited the Soviet Union.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#803202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803202) [\#1639774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1639774))

- Я приїхав у Токіо два місяці **тому**.
  I came to Tokyo two months ago.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aandrusiak and Huskion · checked, community translation · [\#6029107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6029107) [\#490642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/490642))

## Grammar

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