someone who’s ukrainian or fluent in ukrainian please let me know how to use моя, моє, мій etc. i used to remember but now ive forgotten:((( help a language learner out

Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.

Few ways you can say cat in Ukrainian language

A cat- kit

A cute cat- kotyk

A huge cat- kotysche

A huge evil cat- kotys’ko

A cat (derogatory)- kotyara

Female cat - kishka

Cute female cat- kishechka

Another cute female cat- kytsya

Another female cat- kyts’ka

Cuter female cat- hytsen’ka

Baby cat- koshenya

Smaller and cuter baby cat- koshenyatko

Even smaller and cuter baby cat- koshenyatochko

I hope it helps

Free online courses about Ukraine

Basics of the Ukrainian Language and Culture - https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/introduction-ukrainian-language-and-culture/

Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities; this course is available in English, French, Italian, and Norwegian on Coursera: https://ui.org.ua/en/sectors-en/the-first-online-course-about-ukraine-in-english/

The Making of Modern Ukraine with Timothy Snyder: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-making-of-modern-ukraine

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Some common Ukrainian curses in English by Kyrylo Makashov (makashovskiy)

There is a theory that languages are related if one is understandable to a native speaker of the other. However, Ukrainian and Russian differ in many aspects, including lexical and phonetic.

In August 2023, 9% of Ukrainians spoke Russian on a daily basis, compared with 23% in 2022. A number of factors have contributed to the spread of Russian in Ukrainian society. During the Russian Empire and the USSR, and after 1991 with the restoration of Ukraine's independence (Ukraine had been independent since 1918 with the establishment of the Ukrainian People's Republic), Russian was widely used in the media, cinema, literature and music. Instead, Russians can only understand Ukrainian words that are similar to Russian.

This article describes the history of the two languages, their differences and the spread of Russian after the restoration of Ukrainian independence.

130 year old gravestone from a Ukrainian village on Danube river. Despite imperial laws, forbidding Ukrainian language, people still spoke and used the language of their family.

Привіт!

Одразу прошу поширити цей пост!

Отже, я знову запитала в тамблері про українську мову. Якщо ви не знаєте, то українська мова як мова застосунку там відсутня. У зв'язку з тим, що через виїбони маска кожного разу хтось переходить туди (хоч часто не з кінцями), вважаю, що треба якось діяти.

Короткий переклад найголовнішого:

Наразі це не підтримується, але ми вдячні, що ви згадали про це.

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Вони також уточнюють, що не можуть реалізувати всі пропозиції. Однак я думаю, що треба частіше нагадувати їм про укрком'юніті на тамблері. Тобто іноді писати сюди: wip.tumblr.com або в підтримку. Головне не сваритися і не сильно напосідати, просто покажіть, ЩО ВИ ТУТ ��

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Saw your post about the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages and wanted to know how nonspeakers can help. I'm polish and learning the language, and I would love to learn Ukrainian and Belarusian, but I'm not sure if or how that would even help, and i don't want to overstep. I just feel so sick about the continued Russian invasion, Ukrainians are my comrades

Oh, i think learning our languages is already a great help! You'll be able to tell people when they are mistakenly think a certain text/speech is in russian, you'll be able to educate your surroundings about differences in languages. Believe me our hearts melt when we see a non Ukrainian speaking up for us and helping to spread info and culture.

Thank you for your support 🤲💙💛

Castles of Ukraine

Бердичівський замок

Дубенський замок

Золочівський замок

Замок Любарта

Vocabulary:

Замок - zamok - castle

Королівський замок - koroleevskyi zamok - royal castle

Королівська сім'я - koroleevska seemia - royal family

Принц - prynts - prince

Принцеса - pryntsessa - princess

Король - korol - king

Королева - koroleva - queen

"If you take school and university textbooks, which list nations, it is written there that the French were born in the early Middle Ages, the English, the Poles, they all lead from there. And for some reason, we [Ukrainians] need to have origins from the 14th century. The question is, why? Was there any hiatus between the 12th and 15th centuries? No. The population has not changed...

They say, "Tatars used to go here"! The Tatars used to go here, but the Tatars did not sit down here because the Tatars and Mongols needed the steppe. They imposed taxes, and they themselves fled into the steppe.

It should be said that there is no hiatus, which Moscow archaeologists insisted on, and the absence of this hiatus was proven by Soviet archaeology in the 60s and 70s, that there was no depopulation here. Kyiv is an ancient Ukrainian city, just as Kyivan Rus is an ancient Ukrainian state. Why? Because general historical laws. The first stage of European ethnic groups existed - this is the tribal stage. From the 500s to the 900s, about 400 years, all these ethnic groups - the English, the French, the Poles, the Ukrainians, the Serbs - did not have a single ethnonym, they consisted of separate tribal unions. The tribal stage of existence is the entire early Middle Ages. The English consisted of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The Poles consisted of five tribes - the Kashubs, the Mazovshans, the Slenzyans, the Vislyans, and the Polyans. And from these tribes five dialects are now left in the Polish language. And the Ukrainians consisted of Polyans, Drevlians, Volhynians, Ulychis, Carpathian Croats... Europe is maturing somewhere in the year 900-1000, and all these peoples are creating their first aristocratic national states. The first English kingdom arises in the year 1000, around this time, the first Polish kingdom of the Piast dynasty arises. At the same time, the Prague principality of the Czechs emerged, at the same time, the Serbian state and Rus, with its centre in Kyiv, emerged. That is, this is a universal regularity. Since all these states that I have listed are considered Polish, English, Serbian or Spanish states in the medieval stage of development in the textbooks of these countries, we have no reason to doubt the Ukrainianness of Rus. Who wants to doubt - please break these universal laws.

You know that Meshko the First lived in the time of Volodymyr the Holy, and his son Boleslav the Brave - in the time of Yaroslav the Wise. So, Meshko the First and Boleslav the Brave are Polish kings, but try to tell someone that Volodymyr the Holy or Yaroslav the Wise are Ukrainians. You will be spit on! Moreover, by the Ukrainians themselves. And, by the way, all the walls of Sophia of Kyiv are covered with Ukrainian texts, Serhiy Vysotsky also spoke about this. Before his death, he called me and told me that there were Ukrainian texts there, but it was impossible to write about it. In the book he published, all this is translated into Russian.

What elements are there on the walls? Наприклад, клична форма української мови – «Петре», «коню», «князю», що питомо українське, в російській мові цього немає. Дієслова на «-ти» – іти, ходити. Дієслова на «-мо» – живемо, ходимо. Давальний відмінок однини чоловічого роду – князеві, Петрові, Іванові.

Vasiliy Klyuchevskii, a great russian patriot, when asked what language the prince of Kyiv spoke, he said: the language that grandmothers speak in the bazaars in Kyiv now. There are a huge number of these proofs in this regard.

Agatangel Krymsky also wrote about these linguistic features. He has an article about what language was spoken in princely Kyiv. He composed a phrase from the words of the 12th century and accompanied it with the following words: no Moscow professor will understand this phrase, and any grandmother from the Kyiv bazaar will. The phrase sounded like this: «Кицька сидить на призьбі, доки її окропом з глека не злякають або хорти лови не влаштують».

So, summing up, princely Kyiv was as much Ukrainian as London was English, Gniezno was Polish, and Paris was French. These were not Ukrainians, Frenchmen, or Poles as they are now. Because it is an organism, and the organism develops. And these were Ukrainians, Poles, and Englishmen at that medieval stage of development."

Leonid Zaliznyak

- Timothy Snyder - The Road to Unfreedom

The ukrainian kids at work taught me counting out games in russian and ukrainian today (like eenie meenie, miney, mo ...). We played заморозка (playing catch with "freezing" when you get caught). I asked them to write them down because i thought this might be interesting

(Elementary school kids wrote these and I don't know if the spelling is 100% correct. Please do correct if you know!)

(Russian) Чики пики ножку выкинь а выкидивать нельзя потомушто мы друзья стакан лимон вый ди вон дабавь воды и выйдиш ты

(Ukrainian) Сив метелик на травичку i сказав якусь дурничку раз, два, три, це напевно вийдеш ти

FYI November 9th is the national holiday in Ukraine - it's the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language. Such a holiday may seem strange to you, but what if I tell you that the Ukrainian language was prohibited 134 times? Yes, 134 times (17 to 21 century). We even have a term for that: Linguocide of the Ukrainian language — purposeful prohibitions and suppression of the Ukrainian language with the aim of its destruction and assimilation in Ukraine under the authorities of the Commonwealth of Nations (Poland), the Habsburg Empire, the Russian Empire, Romania, the USSR and the Russian military occupation in the first half of the XXI century. 134 times. There’s an article about most outrageous decrees through the centuries, and it’s painful to read through all that each time. Banning printing in the Ukrainian language and the seizure of Ukrainian church books, banning the teaching in Ukrainian, closing of Ukrainian schools, prohibiting censors from giving permission to the publication of Ukrainian spiritual and popular educational literature, banned from official institutions, prohibition to translate books from Russian into Ukrainian and so on and so on and so on... Not to mention how many people were repressed and killed in their attempts to preserve it. So, yes. Ukrainian language is unique and beautiful, immortal and strong, and has a special meaning for every Ukrainian - not just a language, but the the basis of national identity and a symbol of the steadfastness of the Ukrainian people. In other words - fucking badass and unbreakable, okay?!)) 💪💙💛 This holiday has a special place in my heart, too, of course, as I'm a big fan of Ukrainian poetry. Lately I've been working on poems translations from Ukrainian to English trying to preserve the pace, the meter and the meaning completely, so here’ my little contribution for today’s day. I just want people who don’t speak/know Ukrainian to have the opportunity to feel the beauty of it, that’s all... So, here’s one on my favourite poems, called “It's dawning” by Taras Shevchenko. I admit, I cry every time I read it, because it’s filled with such pure love for the native land, described in simple words, that it makes my heart melt.... Okay, here it is.