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Practice: sentences without a subject

Practise Ukrainian impersonal sentences: мені́ хо́лодно, було́ in the past, ішо́в дощ, нема́є хлі́ба, тут гово́рять украї́нською and робо́ту зро́блено.

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What you will practise

Build sentences with no subject, keep their past tense neuter, and tell them apart from sentences that do have a subject.

Intermediate · 8 questions · fill in the blank and multiple choice

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Question 1 of 8

Put the person into the right case.

хо́лодно.

Meaning: I'm cold.

Word to use: (я)

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Grammar

Impersonal sentences

Ukrainian sentences without a subject, such as мені холодно, треба and можна, нема with the genitive, світає, говорять українською, and the forms in -но and -то such as зачинено.

Grammar

The dative case

Dative endings in the singular and plural, the person you give, write or phone to, мені подобається, saying your age, мені холодно and мені треба, and the prepositions that take the dative.

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Modal words: can, want, must

The Ukrainian words for can, want, must, know how to, need, may and should — могти, хотіти, мусити, уміти, треба, можна, слід, повинен and мати — with an infinitive, and how to make them negative.

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Negation

How to say no and not in Ukrainian with ні and не, why Ukrainian uses double negatives, and how to say "there is no" with нема́є and the genitive.

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