--- title: Ukrainian street — a course of Mova's primary school, with trees and pragmatics description: 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. 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Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (Mova corpus 0.4). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/1-hi-hello-and-how-are-you/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/7-calling-mum-and-granny-one-to-eight/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty/) — Counting on: nine to eighty — 11 sentences · DEvyat means nine, with the stress on the first syllable. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/12-drinks-sweets-enjoy-your-meal/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/14-your-turn-i-won-cheat-and-tag/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/15-football-wait-lets-play-and-bagsy/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/16-can-he-come-out-and-the-school-day/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/) — Marks, exercise books, tests and holidays — 16 sentences · Sashko waves his exercise book in the air and shouts "dvanAdtsyat!" — twelve! - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/18-i-know-the-head-and-feelings/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/19-hungry-tired-hurt-offended-missing-someone/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/20-head-hands-feet-and-the-body/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/24-snowmen-hats-draughts-today-tomorrow/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/25-what-time-days-weeks-seasons/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/26-friendly-name-calling-and-real-insults/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/27-only-joking-swearing-and-christmas-eve/) — Only joking! Swearing — and Christmas Eve — 17 sentences · A tease went too far and Sashko looks hurt. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/28-shchedryk-new-year-easter-eggs-birthdays/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/29-vyshyvanka-midsummer-st-nicholas-polite-guest/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/) — 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms/) — 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: [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) - next →: [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) - ↑ back to [the school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/)