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Alphabet: stress and transliteration

Practise Ukrainian stress and the official Latin spelling: за́мок and замо́к, stress that moves, and how Kyiv, Kharkiv and Yurii are transliterated.

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What you will practise

Notice when stress changes the meaning of a word, and read and write names in the official Latin spelling.

Beginner · 7 questions · multiple choice

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Question 1 of 7

What does за́мок mean, with the stress on the first syllable?

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Alphabet

Stress and transliteration

Where Ukrainian word stress falls, how this site marks it, and how the official 2010 system writes Ukrainian names in Latin letters, with its limits.

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The Ukrainian alphabet

All 33 Ukrainian letters with their names, an approximate sound guide and an example word, plus the letters that trip up English readers.

Alphabet

Pronunciation basics

The six Ukrainian vowels, hard and soft consonants, Г and Ґ, В at the end of a syllable, Й, Щ, the apostrophe and voicing, with the mistakes English speakers make most often.

Sources

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