UKRAINIAN
LANGUAGE RESOURCES
including
Ukrainian
- English online wordlist
basic Ukrainian grammar and other Ukrainian online dictionaries
UKRAYINS'KA MOVA
Ukrainische Sprache,
Ukrainsk Språk, Lingua Ucraina, Langue Ukrainien,
Safa Ukrainit, Oukrainiki, Ukrainan kieli, Lingua Ukraina, Jezyk
Ukrainski,
Ukrainskiy yazyk, Ukrán nyelv, Langua Ukraina, Idioma Ukraina,
Idioma Ucraniana
| Ukrainian (formerly
known as Ruthenian) language is my native. Below I am
presenting a few Ukrainain online dictionaries
(wordlists) with some basic Ukrainian vocabulary in
English transliteration on the front page. Ukrainian, like some other Slavic languages as Russian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Serbian and non Slavic as Kazakh, Kyrghyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Azeri, Yakut, Chukchi, Karelian and many other peoples of former Russian empire uses the Cyrillic alphabeth and is written in Cyrillic letters. The closest languages it is similiar are: Belorussian, Russian, Polish, Slovak and Old Church Slavonic as well as to other Slavic languages such as Czech, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croation, Macedonian and Slovenian. It belongs to Eastern group of Slavic (Slavonic) languages and is the most ancient live Slavic language, being the most closely related language to Old Slavonic, the common language of ancestors of modern Slavs as well as like Sanskrit it is one of the closest languages to the common language of the first Indo-Europeans (Aryans). Ukrainian has many words which are almost identical as in Sanskrit, for instance Ukrainian "povi'trya" (air) or "vohon'" (fire). It is the language which was spoken in medieval Kievan Rus' kingdom (10 th - 13 th centuries). Russian is newer language and derives from Ukrainian church language (called Church Slavonic). Many of Ukrainian words you will not find in any other Slavic languge and others such as "kavun'" (water melon) or "maydan'" (square) derive from Tatar and Turkish for instance, because of historical influences. Ukrainian is spoken mainly in Western part of Ukraine (where it undergone some Polish influence) and in rural areas of Eastern Ukraine. Eastern Ukrainian cities are russified and mainly Russian speaking (for instance although Ukrainians make up a quarter of the Crimean population, only four of 582 Crimean schools (0.69 percent) are Ukrainian, and only one out of 392 publications on the peninsula is in Ukrainian. In the Donbas, where Ukrainians constitute 50 percent of the population, the proportion of pupils in Ukrainian language schools is still only 10 percent) because of shauvinist and imperialist language politics of imperial Russia, where Ukrainian was considered as Little Russian language and was prohibited to use as famous Tsar's official Valuev said "Ukrainian language did not exist, it does not exist and it will not exist" Ukrainian is very well preserved in Western Ukraine (where I come from) which had never been part of Russia but of Austria and Poland and thus avoided russification. During Soviet times it undergone further russification. Persons who tried to protect the rights to speak in Ukrainian were deported to Siberia. Those who spoke Ukrainian instead of Russian were called and treated as "bourgois nationalists". Thus, Eastern Ukraine urban areas are completely russified: in Ukraine, where Russians are the largest minority, constituting 22 percent of the population, 33 percent of pupils and students are enrolled in Russian- language schools and universities (mostly in Eastern and Southern Ukraine, since instruction in Western Ukrainian Schools is exclusively in Ukrainian). In Ukraine, 1,193 newspapers are published in Russian (largely in Eastern and Southern Ukraine), compared with 1,394 in Ukrainian (mostly in Western area of Ukraine). Despite the sad past, nowadays, Ukrainian language is going through a revival and it has become the language of TV films, science, newspapers, computers and Internet, being the only official language of 49 millions people Ukraine. |
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UKRAINIAN ONLINE DICTIONARIES - WORDLISTS: |
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UKRAINIAN
VOCABULARY AND BASIC GRAMMAR:
(in English transliteration)
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Some of basic nouns -
Imen'nyky:
Accent is marked with underlined vowels or with vowels
followed by inversted coma / apostrophe. In some cases inverted
coma signifies soft sign (if it stands after a consonant).
mova
- language
sontse - sun
trava - grass
vikno - window
maty, mama - mother,
mom
bat'ko, tato - father,
dad
syn - son
simya - family
stil - table
doroha - road
vulytsia - street
kokhannia - love
kazka - fairy-tale
khlopets - boy
divchyna - girl
muzhchyna - man
zhinka - woman, wife
shliakh - way
lizhko - bed
stina - wall
noha - foot
ruka - hand
holova - head
zirka - star
tilo - body
misto - town
krayina - country
derzhava - state
stolytsia - capital city
kimnata - room
vovk - wolf
nebo - sky
khmara - cloud
liudyna - man (in sense of human)
knyzhka - book
kvitka - flower
dim - house
kit - cat
pes / sobaka - dog
hodyna - hour
hodynnyk - watch, clock
chas - time
kartoplia - potatoe
bulba - potatoe (in rural dialects all over
Ukraine)
barabolia - potatoe (Berezhany district
dialect)
rika, richka - river
ozero - lake
more - sea
potik / strumok - brook
lis - forest
hora - mountain
horb, pahorb - hill
hay - wood, little forest
derevo - tree
selo - village
pole, lan - field
sino - hay
tserkva - church
stezhka - path, pathway
zemlya - land
vohon' - fire
hromada - community
hroshi - money
litak - plane
mashyna - car
potiah, poyizd - train
vedmid' - bear
zayets, zaychyk- hare
vovk - wolf
bilka - squirell
olen - deer
oko - eye
vukho - ear
nis - nose
rot - mouth
lytse - face
morkva - carrot
tsybulia - onion
yabluko - apple
yabko - apple (Western Ukrainian dialect)
vynohrad' - grape
Pronouns - Zaymen'nnyky:
Ya - I
Ty - You
Vin - He
Vona' - She
Vono', Tse - It
My - We
Vy - You (polite form)
Vony' - They
Conjugation of personal
pronouns of 1 st, 2 nd, 3 person sing. and plural:
Nom.: Ya (I), ty (You), Vin
(He), Vona (she), My (we), Vy (You, plural), vony (they)
Gen.: miy, tviy, yoho', yiyi',
nash, Vash, yikh'niy
Dat.: meni, tobi, yomu', yiy,
nam, Vam, yim
Acc.: mene, tebe, yoho', yiyi',
nas, Vas, yikh
Possesive pronouns:
miy
- my (masc.)
moya' - my (fem.)
moyi' - my (plural)
tviy, tvoya', tvoyi' - your
Vash, Va'sha, Va'shi - your (polite form)
yikh, yi'khnia, yi'khni - their
yiyi' - her
yoho' - his
nash, na'sha, nashi - our
Adjectives - Prykemt'nyky: Adjectives have masculine, feminine and middle forms: For example: bi'lyy - white (masc.) bi'la - white (fem.) bi'le - white (mid.) zele'nyy - green (masc) zele'na - green (fem.) zele'ne - green (mid.) novyy' - new (masc.) nova' - new (fem.) nove' - new (mid.)
Other adjectives are conjugated the same way as above: chor'nyy - black sy'niy - blue chervo'nyy - red kory'chnevyy - brown shvydkyy' - fast povil'nyy - slow cika'vyy - interesting dale'kyy - far blyzkyy' - near, close har'nyy - nice poha'nyy - bad smachnyy' - tasty dobryy' - good strashnyy' - horrible, frightful svit'lyy - clear tem'nyy - dark vazhkyy' - heavy lehkyy' - easy bid'nyy - poor baha'tyy - rich kozh'nyy - every
Verbs - Diyeslova': yty - to go bih'ty - to run spiva'ty - to sing yis'ty - to eat pamyata'ty - to remember zabuva'ty - to forget dava'ty - to give bra'ty - to take pysa'ty - to write zhy'ty - to live lita'ty - to fly vi'ryty - to believe du'maty - to think dya'kuvaty - to thank Dia'kuyu! - (I) thank you! Dia'kuyemo! - (We) thank you! hra'ty - to play hovory'ty - to speak skaza'ty - to say slu'khaty - to listen chu'ty - to hear krycha'ty - to shout pla'katy - to cry vchy'ty - to study spa'ty - to sleap mri'yaty - to dream shuka'ty - to seek znakho'dyty - to find cheka'ty - to wait liuby'ty - to like kokha'ty - to love ba'chyty - to see dyvy'tysya - to look, to watch vybacha'ty - to excuse perepro'shuvaty - to ask pardon Vy'bachte! - Excuse me! Perepro'shuyu, pro'shu! - pardon! zna'ty - to know
CONJUGATION OF TO "ZNA'TY" (TO KNOW) IN PRESENT INDEFINITE TIME: Ya znayu - I know Ty zna'yesh - You (singular form) know Vin, Vona, Vono zna'ye - He, She, It knows My zna'yemo - We know Vy zna'yete - You (polite and plural form) know Vony' zna'yut - They know The same way most of other verbs are conjugated
Modal Verbs - Modal'ni diyeslova: ma'ty - have, to own mohty' - can, to be able Ya ma'yu/mo'zhu - I have/can Ty ma'yesh/mo'zhesh - You have/can Vin, Vona, Vono ma'ye/mo'zhe - He, She, It has/can My ma'yemo/mo'zhemo - We have/can Vy ma'yete/mo'zhete - You (as polite form) have/can Vony ma'yut/ mo'zhut - They have/can
"BU'TY" - TO BE: Ya ye - I am Ty ye - You (singular form) are Vin, Vona', Vono'/Tse ye - He, She, It is My, Vony' ye - We, they are Vy ye - You (plural & polite form) are
FUTURE FORMS OF "BU'TY" (TO BE) Ya budu - I will be Ty bu'desh - You will be Vin, Vona', Vono'/Tse bu'de - He, She, It will be My bude'mo - We will be Vy bude'te - You (polite form) will be Vony bu'dut - They will be
Adverbs - Prysliv'nyky: shvyd'ko - quickly povil'no - slowly cika'vo - interestingly ma'lo - little baha'to - a lot, a number, many, much dale'ko - faraway blyz'ko - closely pravyl'no, vir'no - correctly, right de'koly, in'koly - sometimes des' - somewhere vnyz - down, downwards vnyzu' - down there vverkh - up, upwards naverkh', naverkhu', nahori' - up, on the top nicho'ho - nothing shchos' - something khtos' - someone nikto' - nobody ko'zhen - every, each Tre'ba - it is needed Neobkhid'no - it is necessary Bud' las'ka! - Please!
INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS Khto? - Who? De? - Where? Yak? - How? Yakyy', Yaka', Yake'? - Which? (Masc., Fem., Mid.) Shcho? - What? Koly'? - When? Skil'ky? - How many/much? Chomu'? - Why? Choho'? Dliacho'ho? - Why for?
Prepositions - Pryymen'nyky: v, u - in, at na - on pid - under tam - there tut - here ot'zhe - therefore bi'lia, ko'lo - at, near shcho - that, which tsey, tsia - this (masc, fem.) tse - it toy, ta, to - that (indicative forms in masc., fem., mid.) tak - yes
Conjuctions - Spolu'chnyky: i [ee] - and dlia - fo yakshcho' - if bo - because tomu' shcho - since, because chy - whether z - with bez - without ra'zom - together
Negative forms: Ni [nee] - No (Literary Ukrainian) Nie - No (Western Ukrainian dialect) Ne - not Nema', nema'ye - there is not, there are not niyak' - nohow nishcho', nicho'ho - nothing
Exclamations - Vy'huky: Os'! - Here you are! Hey! - Hey! Hayda'! - Let's (go, do etc.)! Oy! Oy-yoy! - expresses surprise Okh! - exclamations when one is tired Harazd'! - Okey! Deal!
Numerals - Chysliv'nyky: odyn' - one dva - two try - three choty'ry - four pyat' - five shist' - six sim - seven visim - eight de'vyat - nine de'syat - ten odyn'natsyat - eleven dvannad'tsyat - tvelve trynad'tsyat - thirteen dvad'tsyat - tventy tryd'tsyat - thirty sto - one hundred dvis'ti - two hundred trys'ta - three hundred ty'siacha - one thousand million' - one million
Plural forms of nouns are usually formed by endings change into: "-y", "a": For example: stil (table) - stoly' (tables) selo' (village) - se'la (villages) sad (garden) - sady' (gardens) sumka, torba (bag) - sumky', tor'by trava' (grass) - tra'vy (grasses) voda' (water) - vo'dy (waters)
Plural form of adjectives is formed by endings chaange from "yy" or "iy" into "i": For example: rozum'nyy (intellegent) - rozum'ni novyy' (new) - novi' dalekyy' (far) - daleki' koly'shniy (former) - kolysh'ni popered'niy (previous) - popered'ni
MAP OF UKRAINE
MARKING DIALECTS OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE
Above: Dialects
of Ukrainian language:
1. Volhynian dialect
2. Podillya (Podole) dialect
3. Galician dialect
4 -5. Carpathian dialect (Hutsul and Boyko)
6 -7. Pokuttya (Bokovynian) dialect
8. Kyiv (Kiev) - Poltava dialect
9. Southern dialect
Map of East Slavic Dialects
Names of months in Ukrainian
with transliterations
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PAGE CREATED BY ROMAN
ZAKHARII
(from Western Ukrainian town Berezhany,
in former Austrian province of Galicia, later Poland, USSR and
today Ukraine)
Page created on 24th of September, 2001, in Oslo, Norway
(where I worked and studied, doing two years MPhil in Medieval
Studies at the University of Oslo).
Updated on 15.01.2008.
I had graduated in history of Ukraine from the University of Lviv
in Ukraine and hold MA in Modern Central European history
(specializing in Polish Jewish historiography) from Board of
Regents of the University of State of New York (I did it at CEU
in Budapest). I would be interested to teach Ukrainian, Russian,
Soviet, Polish history / languages or Eastern European Jewish
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