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# якби — Ukrainian to English

How Ukrainian *якби* 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: якби (507). By style: everyday 502 · biblical 5.

## if

Used about 430 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 429 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [if in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/if/).

- Я би пішов, **якби** міг.
  I'd have gone **if** I could have.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CC · checked, community translation · [\#6870297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6870297) [\#7076349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7076349))

- Усяка ж жінка, що молить ся або пророкує, не покривши голови, осоромлює голову свою; одно ж бо воно й те саме, **якби** була й обголена.
  But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as **if** she were shaved.
  ([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 11:5)

- **Якби** ми тільки мали сад!
  **If** only we had a garden!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by brambury and adamtrousers · checked, community translation · [\#23576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23576) [\#498973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/498973))

- Я зробила би це, **якби** могла.
  I would do it **if** I could.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#4555298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4555298) [\#6786127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6786127))

- Том пішов би, **якби** міг.
  Tom would have gone **if** he could've.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CC · checked, community translation · [\#6871038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6871038) [\#5731382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5731382))

## would

Used about 52 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52). Forms: would, wouldn.

- **Якби** не ти, я би загинула.
  Without you, I **would**'ve died.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3825363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3825363) [\#7465133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7465133))

- **Якби** я помер, хто би дбав про моїх дітей?
  Were I to die, who **would** look after my children?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marko and CM · checked, community translation · [\#25330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25330) [\#1834052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1834052))

- **Якби** я отримав водійскькі права, я був би щасливий.
  Getting a driving licence **would** make me happy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#7970699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7970699) [\#7970697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7970697))

- **Якби** я помер, хто би став піклуватися про моїх дітей?
  Were I to die, who **would** look after my children?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by uaspeaker and CM · checked, community translation · [\#25330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25330) [\#471053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/471053))

- **Якби** він народився у кращі часи, він би став знаменитим.
  Born in better times, he **would** have become famous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#30481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30481) [\#500835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/500835))

## could

Used about 10 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10).

- **Якби** я міг сказати тобі щось позитивне.
  I wish I **could** tell you something positive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by triantafillou and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2538261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2538261) [\#4920000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4920000))

## d

Used about 10 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10). Meaning: [d in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/).

- Ти б був дурнем, **якби** це зробив.
  You'**d** be a fool to do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5513637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5513637) [\#6281605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6281605))

## gone

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

- Як же пійшли брати Його, тодї й Він пійшов на сьвято, не явно, а **якби** потай.
  But when his brothers had **gone** up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
  ([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 7:10)

## More sentences

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

- 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)

- Оце ж я так біжу, не **якби** на непевне; подвизаюсь так, не **якби** повітрє (вітер) бючи.
  I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
  ([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 9:26)

- Після сього поглянув я, і ось, двері відчинені на небі, і перший голос, що я чув, **якби** (від) труби говорячої зо мною, сказав: зійди сюди, і покажу тобі, що має бути після сього.
  After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after 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 · REV 4:1)

## 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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