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# cyrillic

«cyrillic» in Mova's school dictionary: **the alphabet used to write Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Cyrillic); noun (Cyrillic, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cyrillic is the alphabet used to write Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Kazakh, Mongolian and other languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#m1)

2) Cyrillic letters include some that look like English ones (А, О, Т) and others that do not (Ж, Ш, Щ, Ї). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In language lessons, pupils compare alphabets: Latin (English, French), Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese characters. Cyrillic was created long ago from Greek letters and named after Saint Cyril, a missionary who with his brother Methodius brought writing to Slavic peoples. Traps for English readers: Cyrillic Р is an "r" sound, Н is "n", С is "s", В is "v". Ukrainian has letters Russian does not, like Ї, Є and Ґ. Phrases: «Cyrillic alphabet», «Cyrillic letters», «written in Cyrillic».

### examples

- Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#x1)
- The sign was in Cyrillic, so I could not read it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#x2)
- The Cyrillic letter Ж sounds like the "s" in "treasure". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#x3)
- Cyrillic was named after Saint Cyril. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#x4)
- In Cyrillic, the letter Р is said like an "r". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#x5)
- We learned to write our names in Cyrillic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/#x6)

### note

Capital C. Say it "si-RIL-ik". Trap: some Cyrillic letters look like Latin ones but sound different (Р = r, В = v, Н = n, С = s, У = u). Cyrillic is an alphabet, not a language.

### In the corpora

- [Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, which has 33 letters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/6/)
- [In Cyrillic the calling form changes only the last letter: МАМА → МАМО, ТАТО → ТАТУ, БАБУСЯ → БАБУСЮ.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cyrillic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cyrillic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.