ukrainian

Hello friends, I am not actually studying Ukrainian language, but recently I met a girl from Ukraine in my town and would like to send her a small message written in her native language. She speaks my language (Spanish) fluently, but I am sure that my message in her language would really blow...

Dear friends, I have a question that seems so simple, yet it torments me. This should be one of those things that is learned in the first week of class, yet it has mysteriously remained unresolved, until the time that I opened this post. In Ukrainian, how do you say, "in Ukrainian"? I have...

Hello everyone, I have a question about the verbs учити & учитися. I learned that учити means «to teach» and « учитися» «to learn» / «to study». Thus, я вчуся української мови, отже я студент. But, я вчу мого студента українську мову, отже я вчитель. (Please feel free to correct all my...

I'm confused by the tenses in this phrase. I guess the literal translation is "Everything goes as it goes." Am I right in thinking that a reasonable interpretation is: "Everything happens in its own time"

Hello to everyone, I will make a trip to Ukraine next week (a bussiness one) and I would like to learn some words and expressions in Ukrainian. Could you, please, help me and tell me how I can say: ... - I hope we can begin a positive cooperation... ? I mean some basical expressions in this...

Please help us (at the Russian forum) to parse the following saying in Ukrainian: "В літку і качка прачка, а зимою і дівка шмаркачка", split from here (a few posts at the end) http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1282104

Добридень! I am writing a letter to my Ukrainian professor to explain to her that I have not come to class for the first two weeks because I have been working full time at the language laboratory. How can I say that? I always have trouble with time expressions. I use the accusative, right...

How would you translate the word "IHTEPHAT" into English - boarding school, boarding institution, orphanage, orphan boarding school?????? I know what it means and what it is, but I just can't imagine an English equivalent! Thanks for your suggestions!

Zdoroven'ki buli!! How can I say in Ukrainian: I am so extremely sorry... to intensify the apology...?

Split from here - the question now is about "Ukrainian: I have just started learning Ukrainian". Привіт, Наталко! :-) Ги-и-и, це правда, ти маєш рацію! Це тільки "чи ... чи". Я ще новий студент української мови, знаєш. Але завжди "прави" мене! (Чи це правильно, "правити"?) Доброго дня!

Hello everyone, I have noticed that Ukrainian, like many of the other Slavic languages, has more than one word for the English "friend". It is true that in English, this tends to be a general term, a blanket term, to address many spectra of people. I like that Ukrainian is more specific, but...

В чем отличия украинского языка от белорусского языка? What are basic differences between Ukrainian and Belarussian languages?

Split from here. Hello Anatoli! I was wondering, is the Ukrainian и really /ɨ/ ? I didn't know that the Ukrainian и equals the Russian ы. This would explain why I'm having trouble pronouncing it. It is a difficult vowel for English speakers. I had previously looked at a vowel chart for...

Hello everyone! Today in my Ukrainian class we learned that to form the imperfective future, we have two options: 1) бути + infinitive, e.g. Я буду читати or 2) infinitive + му, e.g. Я читатиму My book says that both forms are equally used and mean exactly the same thing, but I wanted to...

Hello everyone! I would like to know what the difference is in Ukrainian between тепер and зараз. I understand them both to mean "now", "presently". Is there a difference between them or are they interchangable? Could you please give me some examples? I just know that on Facebook they use...

Hello everyone, I am having trouble understanding this phrase from a song lyric: Варто чи ні жити лиш згадками? I understand just, "Is it worth it or not to live . . . x . . . x . . . ? I saw that згадка means something like "comment", but I cannot make sens of it and лиш isn't in my...

Hello, foreros! Can anyone help me with a saying that could be equivalent to Russian "Терпение и труд всё перетрут" in Ukrainian? I have looked it up in several phraseologic dictionaries and still haven't found a translation.

Hello! I think almost everybody can easily distinguish Ukrainian from Russian in writing due to some different letters, yet do you have any tips how to distinguish Ukrainian from Russian when you hear them? How about Belarusian? Does it have some different letters than Russian too? Is it...

I was translating an old Ukrainian letter and want to know what this phrase means, particularly the word пічер. "Дорога братово пришліть мені свій пічер і свою родину бо я вам свій пічер посилаю як дістанете той лист." The words were a little illegible in the letter, so the spellings might be...

Hello everyone: I am having trouble translating this word "дану" and this derivative (I'm sure they're related words) "дана". Here is the context: Я люблю тільки тебе, Богом дану мені. And Моє серце палає у вогні, що ти дала мені, Богом дана одна, моя лебідко кохана. Here's what I've figured...

I just learnt on the Russian forum that "москали" means "someone from Moscow in slang". Now, the -li is a Turkish suffix, which is added to the names of places. Does the same rule apply to Ukrainian and is the suffix borrowed from Turkish? So is someone from Kiev a "Киевли"?

Hello everyone, I have a friend friend from Запорожье, Украина. She speaks Russian but I don't know how names work in Ukraine - I don't want to assume that just because she speaks Russian that her name is also Russian. Is Yedimenko a Russian or Ukrainian surname? And how can it be written in...

Good morning and hello! I would like to know how to say, "Love, don't travel by means of that train". This sounds horrible in English, but I wrote it in English because I think more people speak it than Slovak. The original text is: "Láska, necestuj tým vlakom". Thank you very much! PS. A...

Hello! I would like to know how to say, "Maria, please give this postcard to Peter for me / on my behalf". My try: Маріє, прошу, дай цю пистівку Петру для мене.

Hello foreros! I would like to know how to say, "Today I must not fear". I am translating it from Slovak into Ukrainian, so the original is: Dnes sa nemusím bať. Thank you very much! :-) PS. Maybe a better word order is "Dnes nemusím sa bať"?

Hi, foreros! I'd like to find out which translation for "myocardial ischaemia" into Ukrainian is better: "міокардіальна ішемія" or "ішемічна хвороба серця". The thing is that I don't know whether "міокардіальний" collocates with "ішемія" or it will be an abundant element because in the case...

Принято ли по-украински, также как по-русски, шампанське вино сокращать до шампанське ?

Здоровенькi були! Як сказати українською "воздушный шар"?

I have a question about verb agreement when the subject is modified by a numeral. In Russian, agreement tends to be optional in such a situation, so you can say: Пять человек пришли (five people arrived-PL) or Пять человек пришло (five people arrived-NEUTER.SG) I was wondering if this was...

Здоровенькi булы!! Як буде по-украiнськи "с высоко/гордо поднятой головой"?

Як сказати по українськи "в таком случае"? Дякую.

Как по-украински этот предлог? Например, как в: наказание для...

Здоровенькi були!! Как сказать по-украински: чеченец, говорящий по-украински - это круто!!

Hi, I'm trying to learn the ukrainian genitive, but in my book, they give examples like: "I'm calling from England, from London" "a lot of books" "little time" I'm confused because for me none of the previous examples have something to do with the gentive. This might come from the fact that...

Подскажите, пожалуйста, как это по-украински?

Витання!! Как сказать по-украински: далековато для меня...?

Как сказать по-украински: индивидуальная непереносимость чего-л.? Дякую.

Hello, everyone! I wonder what could be the translation/explanation of "dentista sin título". I've found it just at the beggining of a short story by Marquez: "Don Aurelio Escovar, dentista sin título y buen madrugador, abrió su gabinete a las seis." Does this "without title" means he hasn't...

Dear all, Can you please help me and let me know the word for "Sunflower" in Russian and Ukrainian? My grandmother used to live in the Ukraine and had a horse called that name. I want to make sure that I am spelling it correctly. Thank you so much in advance. :)

Hello friends, My American-Ukrainian friend has written me a short letter in Ukrainian as a challenge to me. She wrote to me in cursive and I had some trouble decifering it. For example, I couldn't distinguish a cursive ц from a щ. I have done the best I can to type her hand written letter...

Hello everybody. Could somebody tell me how is "Lucky people!" in Ukrainian? Please use your Cyrillic's alphabet characters. Thank you very much.

Vitayu!! Could somebody tell me where to find a source for the Ukrainian names for various nationalities populating the North Caucasus: Lezgins, Laks, Avars, Dargins, Balkars, Ossetians and so on....

Hey guys! How do you say "Good luck" in Ukrainian (I want to say it to a boy who has an important exam, if that's useful to the context) Thanks, MietaGosia

Recently, I’ve been reading on the Internet about several universities and institutes in Ukraine. Often, they are named after somebody, as indicated by імені [кого], where імені is the dative form of ім'я. However, sometimes імени is used. (1) Is the ending -и an error? (2)...

Hello Slavonic speaking friends! I have a Ukrainian friend, Marija, and I wanted to learn some basic Ukrainian for her. I bought a Ukrainian book, and I wanted to tell her that it arrived. It arrived in the mail. I know that Ukrainian, like Russian, has many movement verbs, by foot, by car...

Hello, I'm designing a female Ukranian character for a story, and wondering if anyone could help me with her name.. I like the Russian/Ukranian name Yuri/Uri/Euri because "Yuri" is also a Japanese girl name (meaning lily). If it helps, I am writing this story in Japanese, intended for...

My great-great grandparents came to America from the Ukraine, and their last name was "Czupak". Does anyone know how to pronounce that in english?

How can I translate this into Ukrainian, please?

спорудь, спорудьмо, спорудьте чи споруди, спорудімо, спорудіть ? Дякую

Не знаю як перекласти такий фрагмент тексту: "Dzisiaj trudno nawet powiedzieć,kiedy dokładnie zaczął się zwyczaj ustawiania w domach udekorowanych drzewek" Cьогодні складно навіть сказати, коли почалася традиція (почався звичай) ... в домах (по домах?) прикрашених деревек (ялинок)