Practice: sentence structure

Practise how Ukrainian sentences work: endings rather than word order, no articles, no “is” in the present, leaving out the pronoun, була́ in the past, and не before the negated word.

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Sentence structure

What you will practise

Read who does what from the endings, build simple sentences without “is” or a pronoun, and place не correctly.

Beginner · 8 questions · multiple choice, word order and fill in the blank

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Question 1 of 8

Read the endings. Who is doing the reading?

Кни́гу чита́є ма́ма.

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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.
Горох: Слововживання (типові помилки, суржик і кальки) (goroh.pp.ua)
In Ukrainian. Used for: usage advice from published guides: which Russianisms and calques to avoid in examples, and recommendations such as в Украї́ні rather than на Украї́ні, Котра́ годи́на? for asking the time, and дя́кую with the dative.. Accessed 29 October 2026.

What you will practise

Question 1 of 8

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Sentence structure

Cases, an overview

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Negation

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