Ukrainian street Street Ukrainian for a child with a Ukrainian friend: hi and how are you, goodbye, please and thank you, I don't understand, names, ages and families, the polite vy, calling mum and granny, counting to a hundred, the colours and the two blues, the flag, food and enjoy your meal. The lessons are in English about Ukrainian words.
The ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 32 lessons, 480 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mova corpus 0.4).
1 Hi, hello and how are you 15 sentences · To a friend your own age you say pryVIT (prih-VEET), or the very street zdorOv (zdo-ROV), often with a fist… 2 Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no 15 sentences · Saying goodbye in Ukrainian also has a polite and a casual side: do pobAchennya («until we see each other»)… 3 Please, thank you, sorry, okay 14 sentences · The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please, but also «you're welcome» and «here yo… 4 I don't understand and what's your name? — 17 sentences · The most important sentence a guest can learn is ya ne rozuMIyu — I don't understand — and right after it sh… 5 How old are you, where from, and meet the family 13 sentences · Kids also ask zvidky ty? (where are you from?), de ty zhyvEsh? (where do you live?) and ty z YakOho klAsu? (… 6 Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" 16 sentences · A Ukrainian sim'yA (family) is often big and close: brat and sestrA, cousins who feel almost like brothers,… 7 Calling Mum and Granny; counting one to eight 12 sentences · Counting starts like a game of hide-and-seek: odYn, dva, try, chotyRY, p'yat, shIst, sim, vIsim. 8 Counting on: nine to eighty 11 sentences · DEvyat means nine, with the stress on the first syllable. 9 To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour 15 sentences · Before a race someone shouts «raz, dva, try — pishLY!», one, two, three — go!, and after the counting in hid… 10 The colours, and two kinds of blue 15 sentences · In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are two everyday blues with their own names:… 11 The flag, and what's cooking at the friend's house 15 sentences · In Sashko's family the zhovto-blakYtnyi flag, yellow and blue, is a serious symbol of pride, so it is not so… 12 Drinks, sweets and "enjoy your meal" 12 sentences · Before eating, someone at the table says SMAchnoho! — enjoy your meal — and the answer is DYAkuyu, i vam! 13 Granny's "a little more", festival food and "come on!" — 16 sentences · Ukrainian grannies play a polite game: they offer shche trOshky — a little more — again and again, often thr… 14 Your turn, I won, cheat! and tag 14 sentences · Every playground in the world has the same fights, and Ukrainian has the words: moya chErha! (my turn!), ya… 15 Football, wait, let's play and bagsy 15 sentences · The best way into a group of kids anywhere is a ball, and the best Ukrainian sentence for it is mozhna z vAm… 16 Can he come out? Home time and the school day — 16 sentences · You knock at Sashko's door and his mum opens it: you ask "mozhna VYity?" — can he come out? — and she says "… 17 Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays 16 sentences · Sashko waves his exercise book in the air and shouts "dvanAdtsyat!" — twelve! 18 I know! The head and happy, angry, bored, scared — 16 sentences · In class a hand shoots up: "ya znAyu!" — I know! — and the worst words in school are "tebe do dyrEktora!", y… 19 Hungry, tired, hurt, offended, missing someone 18 sentences · After a long game Sashko pants "ya khochu pyty" — literally "I want to drink", which is how Ukrainian says I… 20 Head, hands, feet and the rest of the body 16 sentences · English cuts the body into more pieces than Ukrainian does: where English has "arm" and "hand", Ukrainian ha… 21 Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies 14 sentences · You trip in the park and land on your kolIno, your knee: "ya vpAv!" — I fell over — and Sashko asks "vse dob… 22 Farm animals, forest animals and pets 17 sentences · In summer Sashko visits his granny's village, where there's a korOva (cow), a svynya (pig), a kurka (hen) an… 23 Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows 14 sentences · Animals "speak" differently in every language: a Ukrainian cat says "myAu", a dog says "hav-hav", and a roos… 24 Snowmen, woolly hats, draughts today and tomorrow — 15 sentences · When it snows, Sashko builds a snIhovyk, a snowman, and shouts "hraimo v snizhky!", let's have a snowball fi… 25 What time is it? Days, weeks, seasons 16 sentences · To meet Sashko in the park you ask "o kotriy?", at what time? — and he says "o p'yatiy", at five. 26 Friendly name-calling and real insults (meanings only) 16 sentences · Kids everywhere call each other names, and the same word can be a joke or a punch: "durnyk", dummy, said lau… 27 Only joking! Swearing and Christmas Eve — 17 sentences · A tease went too far and Sashko looks hurt. 28 Shchedryk, New Year, Easter eggs and birthdays 13 sentences · You probably know a Ukrainian song already: "Carol of the Bells", the ding-ding-dong Christmas tune, is the… 29 Vyshyvanka Day, midsummer, St Nicholas and the polite guest — 14 sentences · "SlAva UkrayIni!" — Glory to Ukraine! — has a fixed answer, "HeroYam slAva!", Glory to the heroes!, and it i… 30 Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners 17 sentences · At Sashko's granny's door you hear "bud laska, prokhodte" — please come through — then "sidai", sit down, an… 31 Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★ 15 sentences · This olympiad lesson is a puzzle box: Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic letters, and like a UKLO puzzle you c… 32 Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★ 15 sentences · Ukrainian words change their ends to tell you things English says with whole extra words, and a sharp puzzle… ← previous Technologynext → World↑ back to the school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/