Breakdown of Сколько ни повторяй новые слова, без контекста их всё равно трудно понять.
новый
new
слово
the word
без
without
трудно
hard
Questions & Answers about Сколько ни повторяй новые слова, без контекста их всё равно трудно понять.
What does Сколько ни повторяй mean? It looks different from the ordinary question Сколько...?
Here сколько does not ask a question. In the pattern сколько ни + verb, it means:
- no matter how much
- however many times
- even if you repeat it over and over
So Сколько ни повторяй новые слова... means something like:
- No matter how much you repeat new words...
- However many times you repeat new words...
This is a very common Russian concessive pattern:
- что ни делай = no matter what you do
- как ни старайся = no matter how hard you try
- сколько ни читай = no matter how much you read
Why is повторяй in the imperative form? Is the sentence giving a command?