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effort

In a sentence
Jeho úsilie prinieslo výsledky.
His effort produced results.
Spoločné úsilie tímu prinieslo víťazstvo.
The team's joint effort brought victory.
Bez veľkého úsilia sa jazyk nenaučíš.
Without great effort you won't learn the language.
Bez veľkého úsilia by skúšku nezvládol.
Without great effort he would not have passed the exam.
Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Hand-reviewed example sentences.
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