Practice: aspect

Practise choosing between imperfective and perfective Ukrainian verbs: one result or a repeated action, duration, actions in progress, start and finish, and common aspect pairs.

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What you will practise

Choose the imperfective or perfective verb from what the sentence says about the action, and match common aspect pairs.

Intermediate · 9 questions · multiple choice, fill in the blank and matching

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Question 1 of 9

How do you say “I buy bread every day”?

Я щодня́ купу́ю хліб. Я щодня́ куплю́ хліб.

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Горох — онлайн-бібліотека словників української мови: Словозміна, Тлумачення (goroh.pp.ua)
In Ukrainian. Used for: stress, gender, plurals, aspect and full word forms for the examples, tables and vocabulary lists on every page; the dictionary definitions (СУМ) used for the meanings of ти and ви, the case each preposition takes, and words such as чи, ні and нема́є.. Accessed 29 October 2026.
Ukrainian As a Foreign Language: an online course for beginners (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA))
In English. Used for: English-language explanations of beginner grammar used as a cross-check: genders, cases, verb endings, aspect, the tenses, adjectives, word order, questions, ти and ви, and numbers, prices and the time.. Accessed 29 October 2026.

What you will practise

Question 1 of 9

Related lessons

Aspect in depth

The past tense

The future tense

The imperative

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