Look up this word
In a sentence
Nadarmo som naňho čakal.
I waited for him in vain.
Nadarmo hľadáš kľúče v taške.
You are looking for the keys in the bag in vain.
Presviedčali ho nadarmo.
They tried to persuade him in vain.
Nadarmo sa snažila opraviť starý budík.
She tried in vain to repair the old alarm clock.
Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Hand-reviewed example sentences.
Full attribution on References.