--- title: Please, thank you, sorry, okay — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Please, thank you, sorry, okay», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please, but also «you're welcome» and «here you are». --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / Please, thank you, sorry, okay # Please, thank you, sorry, okay Lesson 3 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/0/) — The busiest little phrase in Ukrainian is BUD laska: it means please, but also «you're welcome» and «here you are». - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/1/) — Thank you is DYAkuyu, with the stress on the first syllable, and among friends just DYAka; the answer is BUD laska or neMA za shcho, «there's nothing to thank for». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/2/) — Sorry comes in sizes: vybaCHAI to a friend you bumped into, vybaCHte to a grown-up or a stranger, and proBAch when you really hurt someone after a quarrel. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/4/) — BUD laska means please; it also means «you're welcome» and «here you are», so DYAkuyu is often answered with BUD laska. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/5/) — DYAkuyu means thank you; the stress falls on the first syllable, DYA-kuyu. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/6/) — duzhe DYAkuyu means thank you very much, for food, presents or a ride home. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/7/) — DYAka is a casual thanks between friends; to the friend's granny the full DYAkuyu is nicer. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/9/) — vybaCHAI means sorry to one friend, for example after bumping into him; the «chai» in it has nothing to do with tea. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/10/) — vybaCHte means sorry or excuse me to adults and strangers, and it is also how you start a question to a stranger. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/11/) — proBAch means forgive me, a heartfelt sorry after a real quarrel; it is stronger than vybaCHAI. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/12/) — NIchoho, literally «nothing», is the usual answer to sorry: it's okay, never mind. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/13/) — LAdno means okay or fine, agreeing to a plan; said with a sigh it means «fine, whatever». - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/14/) — DObre means good, and also okay or agreed; it is the polite okay to adults. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/15/) — pevno means surely or of course, a strong agreement. - ← previous: [Goodbyes, coming in, yes and no](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/2-goodbyes-coming-in-yes-and-no/) - next →: [I don't understand — and what's your name?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)