--- title: Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★ — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: This olympiad lesson is a puzzle box: Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic letters, and like a UKLO puzzle yo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/) [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/) / Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and n… # Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★ Lesson 31 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/0/) — This olympiad lesson is a puzzle box: Ukrainian is written in Cyrillic letters, and like a UKLO puzzle you can crack its words from a few examples, with no dictionary at all. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/1/) — Some letters are old friends: А, О, М, Т and К sound just as they look. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/2/) — Others are tricksters: В is v, Н is n, Р is r, С is s and И is y — so НІ is not «hi» but ni, no! - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/3/) — Some letters do the work of two English ones: Ш is sh, Ч is ch, Я is ya and Ю is yu — so БАБУСЯ has six letters, while babusya in English letters has seven. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/6/) — Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, which has 33 letters. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/7/) — А, О, М, Т and К are said much like English a, o, m, t and k: МАМА is mama, ТАТО is tato and ТАК is tak, yes. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/8/) — Some Cyrillic letters look like English ones but stand for other sounds: В is v, Н is n, Р is r, С is s and Х is kh. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/9/) — И is written y in English letters and sounds like a short «ih», while І is written i and sounds like «ee»: ТРИ is try (three), СІМ is sim (seven). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/10/) — НІ is ni, no; an English reader may misread it as «hi», and ВИ is vy, the polite you, not «BI». - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/11/) — One Cyrillic letter can stand for two English ones: Ш is sh, Ч is ch, Я is ya and Ю is yu. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/12/) — In Cyrillic the calling form changes only the last letter: МАМА → МАМО, ТАТО → ТАТУ, БАБУСЯ → БАБУСЮ. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/13/) — Number words in Cyrillic: ОДИН (odyn, 1), ДВА (dva, 2), ТРИ (try, 3), ЧОТИРИ (chotyry, 4), ШІСТЬ (shist, 6), СІМ (sim, 7), ВІСІМ (visim, 8), СТО (sto, 100); Ь is a small letter that softens the sound before it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/14/) — The teens end in -nadtsyat: odyNAdtsyat 11, dvaNAdtsyat 12, trynAdtsyat 13, p'yatNAdtsyat 15, shistNAdtsyat 16. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/15/) — The tens: DVAdtsyat 20, TRYdtsyat 30, p'yatdesYAt 50, shistdesYAt 60, sImdesyat 70, vIsimdesyat 80; SOrok (40) and devyanOsto (90) are the odd ones, not built from their unit. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/16/) — Numbers like twenty-five are said ten first and then the unit, just as in English: DVAdtsyat p'yat. - ← previous: [Granny's rules, superstitions and good manners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/30-grannys-rules-superstitions-good-manners/) - next →: [Olympiad: endings and polite forms ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/32-olympiad-endings-and-polite-forms/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)