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Short Ukrainian practice sets for beginners on everyday sentences, vocabulary and every grammar topic, with answers checked in your browser and an explanation for every question.
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Alphabet
2 sets
The letters
Read the letters that trip up English speakers, and tell apart и and і, г and ґ.
Stress and transliteration
Notice when stress changes the meaning of a word, and read and write names in the official Latin spelling.
Beginner sentences
7 sets
Greetings
Choose a greeting or goodbye that fits the time of day and the person, and ask and answer “How are you?” with the right ти or ви form.
Introductions
Give your name, ask someone else's in the right register, say where you are from and live, and answer “nice to meet you”.
Directions
Ask where a place is and how to get there, understand left, right, near and far, and tell a place from a direction.
Shopping
Ask what something costs, say a price with the right form of гри́вня, ask for what you want and say how you will pay.
Days and time
Say on which day something happens, talk about yesterday and tomorrow, tell the time and say at what time.
Politeness
Say please, thank you and sorry, pick the ти or ви form of a request, and ask politely for permission or help.
Everyday needs
Say what you want and need, say what you have and don't have, and ask for water, the toilet or help.
Vocabulary
15 sets
Everyday vocabulary
Recognise common words for food, family, the home and the city, and tell apart words that look or sound alike.
Family words
Recognise the words for family members, and remember which of them are masculine although they end in -о.
Food and drink words
Recognise everyday words for food, drink, meals and cutlery, and match some of them to their plurals.
Home words
Recognise words for rooms, furniture and parts of a home, and match some of them to their plurals.
City and transport words
Recognise words for places in a town and for transport, and match some of them to their plurals.
Months and parts of the day
Recognise the twelve months and the words for morning, day, evening and night.
Common verbs
Recognise common verbs and pair each imperfective verb with its perfective partner.
Weather and seasons
Recognise words for the weather and the four seasons, and say whether it is cold, warm or hot.
The body and health
Recognise words for parts of the body and for health, and say that something hurts.
Work and study
Recognise words for work, school and university, and pick the right word for a male or female student.
Travel and holidays
Recognise words for travelling, staying in a hotel and places you visit on holiday.
Clothes and shoes
Recognise words for clothes and shoes, and notice which ones are plural only.
Feelings
Recognise words for feelings and moods, and say “I'm glad” as a man or a woman.
Free time and hobbies
Recognise words for free time and hobbies, and say that you play a game or an instrument.
Nature and animals
Recognise words for nature and animals, and form the plural of кінь.
Grammar
36 sets
First steps
9 sets
Sentence structure
Read who does what from the endings, build simple sentences without “is” or a pronoun, and place не correctly.
Noun gender
Guess a noun's gender from its dictionary form, and recognise the common nouns where that guess goes wrong.
Pronouns and present tense
Choose the present-tense ending that matches the subject, and use ти or ви as the situation requires.
Past tense
Choose the past-tense ending that matches the gender and number of the subject, not its person.
Future tense
Form the future of imperfective verbs in both ways, and recognise the simple future of perfective verbs.
Adjectives
Choose the nominative ending of an adjective from its dictionary form and the gender and number of the noun.
Questions
Pick the right question word, and give хто, яки́й and чий the form the question needs.
Negation
Make sentences negative with не and ні, keep the double negative, and put what is missing after нема́є into the genitive.
Prepositions
Put the noun after a preposition into the case that preposition needs, and tell place from direction.
Nouns and cases
9 sets
Noun plurals
Form the nominative plural of common nouns from the dictionary form, including stem changes and irregular plurals.
First case pattern
Change a feminine noun in -а or -я to its accusative form (-у or -ю) when it is the direct object of a verb.
Genitive
Form the genitive singular and plural of common nouns and use it after quantities, numbers, нема́є and of.
Dative
Put the receiver into the dative, and use the dative patterns for liking, thanking and how you feel.
Instrumental
Form the instrumental of common nouns and pronouns and use it for tools, transport, company, jobs and place.
Locative
Form the locative of common nouns to say where something is, and keep it apart from the accusative of direction.
Vocative
Put names and family words into the vocative when you speak to someone, including both words of a polite address.
Pronoun cases
Put personal pronouns, себе́ and хто into the case the sentence needs, with the н- forms after a preposition.
Adjective cases
Make an adjective or possessive agree with its noun in case, and choose the right accusative for people and things.
Verbs
9 sets
Aspect
Choose the imperfective or perfective verb from what the sentence says about the action, and match common aspect pairs.
Imperative
Form the ти, ви and let's forms of common verbs, and choose the aspect in a command.
Conditional
Form the conditional with би or б, and choose between якби́ and якщо́.
Reflexive verbs
Conjugate verbs in -ся in the present and past, and use them with the case they need.
Verbs of motion
Choose between the one-direction and the many-directions verb, on foot or by transport, and use the prefixed verbs прийти́ and ви́йти.
Modal words
Choose the right word for can, must, need and may, put the person in the right case, and make each one negative.
Irregular verbs
Use the forms of the irregular verbs ї́сти and да́ти, and the stem changes in common verbs such as ходи́ти, плати́ти, могти́ and бра́ти.
Impersonal sentences
Build sentences with no subject, keep their past tense neuter, and tell them apart from sentences that do have a subject.
Participles
Make passive participles agree like adjectives, recognise adverbial participles and what they mean, and avoid active participles that usage guides advise against.
Numbers, comparison and adverbs
4 sets
Numbers
Put the noun after a number in the right form, and choose the right form of the number itself.
Ordinals and dates
Make ordinal numbers agree, say and understand dates, and tell the time with ordinals.
Comparison
Form the comparative and superlative of common adjectives and adverbs, and compare two things with за, від or ніж.
Adverbs
Make adverbs from adjectives, choose the right word for place, direction and starting point, and spell common adverbs.
More pronouns
3 sets
Demonstratives
Make цей, той, уве́сь and сам agree with their noun or person, and use це for “this is”.
Possessives
Make the agreeing possessives match the noun, keep його́ and її́ unchanged, and choose свій when the owner is the subject.
Indefinite pronouns
Choose between -сь, будь- and -небудь, change only the хто or що part, and use ні- words in negative sentences.
Sentences and words
2 sets
Conjunctions
Choose the right word for and, but, or, that, because and which, and give яки́й the right form.
Word formation
Recognise and use common diminutive and noun suffixes, feminine job titles and verb prefixes.
Reading
6 texts
My day (A1)
Read a short text in the present tense about a student's day in Kyiv and answer questions about it.
At the café (A1)
Read a short dialogue in a café, ordering and paying, and answer questions about it.
A weekend in Lviv (A2)
Read a short story in the past tense about a weekend trip to Lviv and answer questions about it.
Calling Mum (A2)
Read a phone call about plans for the weekend, with the future tense and the vocative, and answer questions about it.
Andriy Shevchenko (B1)
Read a B1 text about Ukraine's best-known footballer, answer questions about it, and practise grammar taken from it: голи́ or голі́в after a number, був капіта́ном, and past-tense agreement.
Ukrainian football (B1)
Read a B1 text about football in Ukraine, answer questions about it, and practise grammar taken from it: з + genitive (from), в + locative (in) and з + instrumental (together with).