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English
Verb
make an effort (third-person singular simple present makes an effort, present participle making an effort, simple past and past participle made an effort)
- To try; to work towards a goal.
Synonyms
Translations
to try; to work towards a goal
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 力求 (zh) (lìqiú), 努力 (zh) (nǔlì), 竭力 (zh) (jiélì)
- Esperanto: peni (eo)
- Finnish: ponnistella (fi), skarpata (fi) (slang)
- French: faire un effort
- German: sich Mühe geben ("sich" is in the dative case), sich anstrengen (de)
- Hebrew: הִתְאַמֵּץ (he) (hit'amétz), הִשְׁתַּדֵּל (he) (hishtadél)
- Italian: fare uno sforzo, sforzarsi (it)
- Japanese: 努力する (ja) (どりょくする, doryoku suru)
- Latin: nītor (la)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: anstrenge seg, ta i, gjøre sitt beste, stå på (no)
- Quechua: kallpay
- Russian: пыта́ться (ru) impf (pytátʹsja), попыта́ться (ru) pf (popytátʹsja), стара́ться (ru) impf (starátʹsja), постара́ться (ru) pf (postarátʹsja), де́лать уси́лие impf (délatʹ usílije), сде́лать уси́лие pf (sdélatʹ usílije), прилага́ть уси́лие impf (prilagátʹ usílije), приложи́ть уси́лие pf (priložítʹ usílije)
- Yoruba: sapá, gbìyànjú
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