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attempt

In a sentence
Stálo to za pokus.
It was worth a try.
Jeho pokus o útek bol úspešný.
His escape attempt was successful.
Pokús sa utiecť.
Try to escape.
Radi by sme videli výsledky toho pokusu.
We'd like to see the results of the experiment.
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Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Includes Tatoeba example sentences when present.
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