--- title: I don't understand — and what's your name? — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «I don't understand — and what's your name?», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The most important sentence a guest can learn is ya ne rozuMIyu — I don't understand — and right after it shche raz, B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/) [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/) / I don't understand — and what's your n… # I don't understand — and what's your name? Lesson 4 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/0/) — The most important sentence a guest can learn is ya ne rozuMIyu — I don't understand — and right after it shche raz, BUD laska, once more, please. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/1/) — Grown-ups are delighted when you try, and they will simply say it again slower or switch to English. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/2/) — In the playground a new kid asks yak teBE zvut? — literally «how do they call you?» — and you answer MEne zvut and your name. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/3/) — Ukrainian names change shape like clothes: one boy can be Oleksandr at school, Sashko with friends and Sashunya to his granny, and he is the same boy every time. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/4/) — zvychAino means of course, a slightly formal yes to a request from an adult; again the «chai» in it is not tea. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/5/) — ne znAyu means I don't know, often said with a shrug; ne means not. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/6/) — ya ne rozuMIyu means I don't understand; when a guest says it, people usually repeat more slowly or try English. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/7/) — shche raz, BUD laska means once more, please; raz is one time and shche is again or more. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/8/) — shcho? means what?; it is fine with friends, but to adults the politer pardon? is pereproshUyu?, and a bare shcho? to a granny can sound blunt. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/9/) — yak teBE zvut? means what's your name?, to a kid; literally it is «how do they call you?». - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/10/) — MEne zvut ... means my name is ...; a guest gives his own English name, and the friends may make a Ukrainian version of it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/11/) — yak vas zvut? is the polite what's your name?, but children rarely ask grown-ups this; they call adults by first name and father's name, or TItko, auntie. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/12/) — DUzhe pryYEmno means nice to meet you, said after introductions; the answer is meni tezh, me too. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/13/) — Oleksandr is a common boy's name; Sasha, Sashko and Sashunya are its short and pet forms. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/14/) — Dmytryk and DIma are pet forms of the boy's name Dmytro. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/15/) — Solomiyka and OlEnka are pet forms of the girls' names Solomiya and Olena; endings like -ka make a name affectionate. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/4-i-dont-understand-whats-your-name/16/) — Calling a friend by his full name, like Oleksandr, can sound as if his mum is cross with him. - ← previous: [Please, thank you, sorry, okay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/3-please-thank-you-sorry-okay/) - next →: [How old are you, where from, and meet the family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)