Meaning of хоць | Babel Free

Definitions

1. although, though, even though
2. even if, as much as, so much that (indicates possible extreme consequence or extent of an action, usually with infinitive or imperative)

Equivalents

Examples

“Я не паэта, о крый мяне Божэ! / Ня рвуся я к славе гэт’кай ни мала. / Хоць песенку-думку и высную можэ, / Завуся я тольки-Янка Купала.”

I’m not a poet, oh, God forbid! / I don’t strive for such fame at all. / Even though I might weave a contemplative song, / My name is simply Janka Kupała.

“Uhledzili starca wiaskowyje dzieci i, choć pałachliwyje byli, źbiehlisia da jaho i tak prosta kaleny jamu i absieli.”

It were the village children who saw the old man and, although they were timid, they all ran towards him, and easily sat on his knees.

“Жанчыны, хоць паведамлялі пра большы ўзровень стомленасці, успрымаліся як менш стомленыя.”

Women, although reporting higher level of fatigue, were percieved as less tired.

“Ах, бяднота ты бяднота! / Цяжка жыць з табою. / Хоць вазьмі кінься ў балота, / Заліся вадою.”

Oh, poverty, you, poverty! / It’s hard to live with you. / So much that I could throw myself into a swamp, / get drowned in water.

“Хоць ты, сэрцэ, лопни, трэсни! / Хоць ты выгани, пан, с хаты! / Буду пець я свае песни, / Пакуль возьмуць у салдаты!”

Even if you, my heart, explode or break! / Even if the landlord drives me out of my house! / I’ll keep signing my songs / Until I’m conscripted as a soldier.

“Такое шчасце – / хоць ты ім гандлюй.”

Such happiness — / you could even sell it.

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