Practice

Practice: participles

Practise recognising and using Ukrainian participles: зачи́нені две́рі, відчи́нене вікно́, прочи́тана кни́га, Зачи́нено on a door, чита́ючи and прочита́вши, and відпочива́льники rather than відпочива́ючі.

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What you will practise

Make passive participles agree like adjectives, recognise adverbial participles and what they mean, and avoid active participles that usage guides advise against.

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

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Question 1 of 9

Make the participle agree with the noun.

Две́рі .

Meaning: The door is closed.

Word to use: (зачи́нений)

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Grammar

Participles

How to recognise Ukrainian participles (прочитаний, відкритий) and adverbial participles (читаючи, прочитавши), why many active participles in -учий and -ючий are avoided, and where learners meet these forms.

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

Adjectives in all cases

The case endings of hard adjectives like новий and soft adjectives like синій, the accusative of people and animals, and the possessives мій, твій, наш and ваш in all cases.

Grammar

Aspect in depth

What imperfective and perfective verbs mean, how aspect pairs are formed, how aspect shows in each tense, and how to choose between the two.

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