Have you decided to visit Ukraine? This is not strange, because here you can find everything for a great vacation. Magnificent ski resorts and mesmerizing landscapes of the Carpathians, the unique city of Odessa, which is distinguished by its unique mentality and wonderful beaches, ancient Lviv, which hides many secrets and mysteries, and, of course, the unsurpassed Kiev, the cradle of Ukraine. Every city in Ukraine has a zest, and, having decided to travel the vastness of this country, you will definitely be satisfied and get a lot of good impressions.
During your journey, only one problem may arise, this is the language, which, although related to Russian, still has its own unique differences. In order not to get into an awkward situation, and to be able to talk to any Ukrainian, we have compiled a Russian-Ukrainian phrasebook, which contains a variety of words that you will need during your vacation.
Appeals and common phrases
| Hello hi | Hello, pushing |
| Good morning | Good wound |
| good day | Good day |
| How are you? | Yak do you have the right? |
| Thank you good | Good, dyakuyu |
| excuse me | I'll rock out |
| Goodbye | Do bacheng |
| I do not understand | I am not rosumia |
| Thank you | Dyakuyu |
| You are welcome | Please |
| What is your name? | How are you called? |
| My name is… | Mene are called ... |
| Does anyone here speak Russian? | Is there a hto-nebud rozmovlyaye rosiyskoyu? |
| Yes | So |
| No | Neither |
| I'm lost | I'm getting lost |
| We did not understand each other | We are not witty to one |
| I love you! | I'm tebe kohai! |
| How to say it by ... | How can you tell by ... |
| Do you speak… | What do you say about…. |
| English | In English |
| French | French |
| German | Nimetsky |
| I | I |
| we | we |
| You | You |
| You | You |
| They | Stink |
| What is your name? | What are you called Yak? |
| Good | Good |
| poorly | Pohano |
| Wife | Druzhina |
| Husband | Cholovik |
| Daughter | Daughter |
| A son | A son |
| Mother | Mats, mom |
| Father | Batko |
| Friend | Spinner (m), spinner (w) |
Numbers and numbers
Dates and Times
Directions
Public places
| How much is a ticket to ...? | Skilky kostuye kvotki to ...? |
| One ticket to ... please | Odyn kvytok to ... be-weasel |
| Where does this train / bus go? | Where is the direct tsei pot / bus? |
| Please can you show on the map | Please, you can show on the mapi |
| Do you have spare rooms? | Do you have any vilny kimnats? |
| How much is a room for one / two people? | Skilky kostuye kimnata for one lyudyna / dvy lyudyna? |
| Is breakfast / dinner included? | Snidanok / vechera included / a? |
| Give the bill | Daite rahunok |
| How much is it? | Skilky tse kostuye? |
| It's too expensive | Tse is expensive |
| Ok i'll take | Kind, I vizmu |
| Please give me a package | Daite, be-weasel, pack |
| Table for one person / two people, please | Table for one lyudyna / two cholovik, be-weasel |
| May I see the menu? | How can I see the menyu? |
| What's your signature dish? | Yak you have a firm state? |
| Waiter! | Waiter! |
| Please give me the bill | Daite, be-weasel, rahunok |
| How much is it? | Skilky tse kostue? |
| What it is? | Shcho tse e? |
| I will buy it | I will buy |
| You have…? | Why are you talking ...? |
| Open | Viewclosed |
| Closed | Clogged |
| Little, little | Trokhy |
| Lot | Bahato |
| All | All |
| Breakfast | Snidanok |
| Dinner | Resentment |
| Dinner | The supper |
| Bread | Khlib |
| Drink | Torture |
| Coffee | Kava |
| Tea | Tea |
| The juice | Ovine juice |
| Water | Water |
| Wine | Take out |
| Salt | Sil |
| Pepper | Will be |
| Meat | Myaso |
| Vegetables | Khorodyna |
| Fruits | Vegetables |
| Ice cream | Morozyvo |
Tourism
sights
Greetings, common expressions - a list of phrases and words that will help you communicate on general topics, the words collected here will tell you how to start a conversation, how to ask what time it is, introduce yourself and introduce your family, as well as other useful phrases in communication.
Numbers and numbers - here is the translation of numbers and numbers, as well as their correct pronunciation.
Shops, hotels, transport, restaurants - phrases that will help you easily find a bus stop, railway. station, find out where this or that route goes, order a hotel room, a dish in a restaurant, and the like. In general, a list of words and phrases that are necessary for any tourist.
Tourism - words with the help of which you can explain to any passer-by what exactly you are looking for, whether it be a hotel, an architectural monument, or some kind of attraction.
How to get through - translation of words indicating direction and distance.
Common areas and points of interest - Correct translation and pronunciation of municipalities, landmarks, churches, etc.
Dates and Times - translation and pronunciation of days of the week and months.
Bikes, jargons, and have always been a kind of buffer in the eternal, age-old, but not very serious enmity (rather, its imitation) between "Ukrainians" and "katsap".
The one who does not understand Ukrainian well laughs well
In the Ukrainian language there is such a tongue twister: "Buv sobi tsabruk, ta y peretsabrukarbyvsya". This abracadabra (a certain tsabruk lived for himself, who eventually scrambled) can serve as a kind of test for Russians who want to study the Ukrainian language. Repeat it correctly (at least once!) - will speak Ukrainian, will not repeat it - the Ukrainian will laugh, although for the "Russian ear" there is nothing funny about the fact that some kind of "tsabruk perebrukarbilis" sounds like an attempt to pronounce a tongue twister among the majority "pupils".
Russians are also amused not always by the fluent Russian speech of many Ukrainians, but numerous funny ukrainian words, the list of which in volume depends on the "step of the rosumin of the Ukrainian language" (the degree of understanding of the Ukrainian language).
"Zupynka" on demand
Ordinary situation. The restaurant's client wants to pay off, addressing the waiter in Ukrainian with the request: "Rozrahuyte mene, be a weasel" (count me, please). The serious face of the client is unlikely to be able to restrain the cheerful reaction of a waiter who does not speak Ukrainian.
Can it occur to someone from the ignorant that "smelling his head" means "scratching his head"? And who heard the girl's exclamation in admiration: "Oh, yak garna grandma!" - is unlikely to think about a dragonfly.
Mastering the art of fighting with "sticks" is probably more difficult than fighting with "sticks". "Hto forgetting the parasol?" - can be heard in Ukraine in public transport, and the "nerosized", smiling in bewilderment, will think of anything but an umbrella. Or in the same place, in public transport, the conductor, bending over to you, will politely remind you that "your little one is slipping", and you will only guess by consonance with something "next" that we are talking about a stop.
If someone agrees with you with the words: "You are a walkie-talkie", boldly smile, because this expression means "You are right" and not suspicion of espionage.
Miraculous chapel
Some words in the Ukrainian language are funny because everyday and familiar concepts acquire a funny, parody sound. Many are touched and amused by the word "shkarpatky", while socks (and these are "shkarpatki") do not cause any special emotions in anyone (as a rule). When you visit your friends in Ukraine, you may hear an offer to wear slippers, which in Ukrainian sounds like this: "Axis your caps" (here are your slippers). Someone, looking at your ring on your hand, may say: "Garna (beautiful) heel" - and if the hat is praised, you may hear such a compliment: "Wonderful capeluh!"
An old man sits down on a bench in the park and, exhaling wearily, says: "Ledve doshkandybav". Most likely, hearing this, you will smile instead of sympathy, despite the fact that the grandfather "barely dragged along."
Many funny Ukrainian words translated into Russian sound completely different, losing their charm, such as the invitation "let's sit down together" instead of "syademo vkupi" (words from the song).
Declaring that you are "out of the blue zyikhala", your opponent is not trying to guess where you have moved from - he claims that you are crazy.
Having asked when the next bus will come (tram, trolleybus, etc.), and when you hear in response "already a nezabar", do not try to understand where it is, you were told that "soon".
Learn Ukrainian
"Dyvna dytyna!" - the Ukrainian will say, looking at your child. Do not be offended, the fellow has nothing to do with it, because the "dytyna" is a child. A little Ukrainian girl, seeing a grasshopper in the grass, will joyfully exclaim: "Mamo, dyves, horse!"
If someone boasts to you that they have built a "hmarochos" in their city, take the message seriously, because this is a skyscraper that literally "scratches the clouds."
Do not be embarrassed if you, intending to walk barefoot on hot coals, hear a warning exclamation: "Bezgluzdya!" This is not what you might think, it is just "recklessness".
Hearing behind me a quiet astonished exclamation: "Yaka is an ugly girl!" - do not rush to be indignant or offended, because someone simply admires your beauty (in Ukrainian - "vroda"). And vice versa, if a confident "schlondra" sounded behind your back, do not flatter yourself, because, despite the French pronoun that makes its way into this word, you were mistaken for a woman / girl of "not very difficult" behavior.
“I’ll jump yak-nebud,” a new Ukrainian acquaintance may tell you, promising to “run away somehow,” and not jump, as you might hear.
When treating with plums or pears, a generous Ukrainian woman can warn you against abuse, hinting at the possibility of an upset stomach with the words "... the shvidka Nastya ne attacked" (so that the fast Nastya does not attack). Agree that this is not as scary as diarrhea, and sounds nicer.
And she could scream that snarl
The funniest Ukrainian words are associated with translations that are unusual for a "Russian ear" but intuitively understandable. Some children, for example, like the "Vedmedyk Klyshonogiy" sweets more than well, and the girls prefer the "Kisses" sweets to the "Tsukerki" Tsukerki "Tsom-Tsom" sweets.
"A golden chain on a tom oak (And a golden lanceyug on it): day and night, a scientist cat (and a den and nobody there is a whale of studies), everything goes around in a chain (Tim is circling on a lantsyugu)." It sounds nice, melodic, but ... "smiles".
Many are amused by the "Ukrainian Lermontov", when he has "... and that rypyat" was too late, although if "... and the mast bends and creaks," there is no laughing matter.
In Russian in Ukrainian
Funny Ukrainian words and expressions often appear as a result of, to put it mildly, inaccuracies, and sometimes attempts to pronounce the Russian word in the "Ukrainian manner." For example, you can hear the following expression from a pretty girl addressed to her boyfriend: "Don't jerk off, Vasko!" Ears can’t believe it, and this is just an innocent slip of the tongue, because the girl wanted to say "ne drag" (do not tease, do not be angry). “I’m telling you frankly,” a Ukrainian who has forgotten his native language, who has not remembered the word “vidverto”, may say. From the same series and such pearls: kanhvetka (sweetie), ne talkaryuite, pevytsya (singer), bite (tasty), ne get enough (don't like it), etc.
Ukrainian words in Russian, funny hybrid phrases and expressions are frequent "in a hodgepodge" with Russian or against the background of prevailing Russian words, where they are appropriate, "like a horse in a store."
In the international melody of the language odessa slang you can often hear such "notes": tamochki (over there), tutochki (right here), there (that way, side), here (this way, side), matsat (touch, paw), tynat (wander) and many others pearls. "Was there a meal?" - they will ask you for some reason at the Odessa import, and try to guess what it means (wus - in Hebrew "what", and trap - this is Ukrainian "happened").
Innovations "in the Ukrainian manner"
The list of phrases in the category, which includes "innovative" words in the Ukrainian language (funny, somewhat exaggerated translations), is growing every day. These are mainly expressions and concepts that do not sound enough Ukrainian. Therefore, today you can hear the following: drabynkova maidanka (staircase), mizhpoverhovy drotokhid (lift), morzotnyk (freezer), mapa (card), pilosmokt (vacuum cleaner), comora (pantry), dryzhar (vibrator), dushets (nitrogen) , linden (glue), shtrykavka (syringe), zhyvchik (pulse), rotoznavets (dentist), dribnozhivets (microbe), crooked (zigzag), zyavysko (phenomenon), pryskalets (shower), livestock (biologist), poviy (bandage) , obizhnik (bypass sheet) and others.
We swear in Ukrainian
Ukrainian curses are irresistible to the ear, and for those who do not quite understand the meaning, some of them sound like a "wondrous melody" and can even produce the opposite effect, making the cursed person laugh.
"And Nastya's shvydkoy shvydkoy here tebe was annoying ... (a familiar wish to you). And that navel bald, like a stupa poppy look like a stupa ... And thrashing millet with your muzzle ... schob tebe a fly kicked in ... And shob tebe chipped ... And schob tebe are evil ... And shob tebe stepped on your foot ... "and many more kind and sincere wishes.
Overdoers
And finally, a few "popular", rarely used, including far-fetched literal pseudo-translations of some Ukrainian words, which not all cause sincere and cheerful laughter. Spalakhuyka (lighter), dumbbell (butterfly), chakhlik nevmyrushy, pysunkovy villainy (sexual maniac), yako-spodivayko (egg "Kinder surprise"), sikovytyskach (juicer), darmovys (tie), pisyunets-vid (teapot) (scapegoat), gum natsyutsyurnik (condom) and others.
"I myself do not know what kind of soul I have, hohlyatskiy or Russian. I only know that I would not have given any advantage to a Little Russian over a Russian, or a Russian over a Little Russian. Both natures are too generously gifted by God, and, as it were, each one separately contains what is not in the other is a clear sign that they must replenish one another "(N. V. Gogol).
The phrasebook is intended for Russian citizens who visit Ukraine for different purposes and do not speak Ukrainian.
The material in the phrasebook is arranged thematically. For the most common situations (acquaintance, customs, airport, hotel, restaurant, etc.), typical patterns of phrases and expressions are given.
A list of useful words on the topic is provided at the end of the sections. By substituting words from this list into ready-made phrases, you can get new variants of sentences.
Table of contents
GENERAL USEFUL 9
Greetings 9
Farewell 9
Appeal 10
Acquaintance 10
Meeting 11
Formulas for courtesy 13
Consent 15
Disclaimer 15
Request 16
Congratulations, 17
Regret sympathy 1
Invitation 18
Need 19
Professions 20
Age 24
Family 24
Language 27
Time 29
Calendar 32
Climate, weather 34
Colors 37
Qualities 38
Toilet 39
Numbers 39
Fractions and Percentages 44
Personal Pronouns 44
Possessive 45
Question Words 45
Useful adverbs 47
Measures of weight, length, volume 48
Signs and inscriptions 49
ARRIVAL 51
Passport control 51
Customs 52
At the train station, at the airport 53
BANK 55
IN HOTEL 59
Room decoration and 59
Hotel Service 61
IN THE RESTAURANT 66
Menu 68
Claims 81
TRAVEL82
By plane 82
By train 86
On motor ship 90
Bus 93
CAR 95
At the gas station 95
In the car service 96
On the road in a car 97
IN THE TOWN 106
Post, Telegraph 106
Phone 108
Sightseeing inspection 112
Urban transport 115
Bureau of Forgotten Things 122
SPENDING LEISURE 125
In the theater 125
Cinema 130
In concert 133
In the museum, picture 137
At the zoo 142
In the pool, water park 145
Entertainment 148
In the circus 150
SHOP, SHOPPING 152
In the supermarket, 152
In food 168
INTERNATIONAL 173
Conferences 173
Trade fairs 179
Business correspondence 182
HOUSEHOLD184
Film development, photo 184
Barber 186
In a beauty salon 189
Repair of household appliances 190
Dry cleaning 191
Laundry 192
In a shoe shop 193
SPORT 195
IN THE COUNTRY 210
On the use of the Ukrainian part of the phrasebook.
The Ukrainian alphabet is very similar to the Russian one. The difference is that in Ukrainian there are no letters y, e, b, but there are letters that are not found in Russian: r, i, i, e.
When reading the Ukrainian part of the phrasebook, it should be borne in mind that:
i - pronounced like Russian and;
ï - pronounced as yi;
ε - pronounced like Russian e;
g - pronounced like Russian g (however, this sound is extremely rare);
e - pronounced like Russian e;
and - pronounced like Russian s.
A characteristic feature of the Ukrainian language is the consonant g, which is pronounced as a non-explosive South Russian g (the middle between g and x).
Otherwise, the pronunciation of Russian and Ukrainian sounds, as a rule, coincides and should not be difficult for a Russian-speaking reader.
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