🤖 Literally, in English
“What you sow is what you will reap.”
Що посієш, те й пожнеш. Shcho posiyesh, te y pozhnesh
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“You get what you give.”
also: “Your actions come back to you.” · “That's what you get.”
- 📖 Meaning
- The results you get depend on what you put in — good or bad.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- The literal translation is already a perfectly normal English proverb, which makes this a good example of two languages landing on the same words.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “You reap what you sow.”
- 📝 Explanation
- Can be warm advice to a child or a cold remark to someone facing consequences, depending entirely on tone.
- 🏛 Cultural context
- Shared Biblical origin, which is why the English and Ukrainian versions are nearly word-for-word identical.
🧠 Learn
- sow (verb) — to put seeds into the ground — сіяти “They sow the wheat in autumn.”
- reap (verb) — to cut and collect a crop; to receive a result — жати, пожинати “She is reaping the rewards of years of work.”
🗣 In context
Він ні з ким не рахувався — що посієш, те й пожнеш.
He treated everyone badly — you reap what you sow.
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