Practice: the vocative

Practise calling and addressing people in Ukrainian: Оле́но, Марі́є, Іва́не, Андрі́ю, дру́же, Пе́тре, си́ну, first name and patronymic, and па́не and па́ні.

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The vocative

What you will practise

Put names and family words into the vocative when you speak to someone, including both words of a polite address.

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

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Question 1 of 9

Put the name into the vocative.

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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.
Стандарт державної мови «Український правопис». Офіційне видання (Національна комісія зі стандартів державної мови)
In Ukrainian. Used for: the current official spelling standard: the 33-letter alphabet, г and ґ, the apostrophe, the alternation of у/в, і/й and з/із/зі, writing не and ні-, and capital Ви in letters and documents.. Accessed 29 October 2026.

What you will practise

Question 1 of 9

Related lessons

The vocative

Greetings

Politeness

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