Ukrainian Verbs (100 Conjugated Verbs)

By Karibdis

Especially written for electronic devices, Ukrainian verbs has an introduction to the formation of all verbal tenses in Ukrainian, as well as 100 essential verbs fully conjugated with their meaning. This book allows the user to search in all the text because it has no images or vanishing or unreadable text.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karibdis
• Release date: Sep 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005808006

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Especially written for electronic devices, Ukrainian verbs has an introduction to the formation of all verbal tenses in Ukrainian, as well as 100 essential verbs fully conjugated with their meaning. This book allows the user to search in all the text because it has no images or vanishing or unreadable text.

Editorial Karibdis

Ukrainian Verbs

100 verbs series - Volume 15

First edition

Karibdis 15.10.20

Original title: Ukrainian verbs

© Editorial Karibdis, 2020

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Digital editor: Karibdis

First edition: October 2020

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UKRAINIAN VERBS

1. Introduction

Ukrainian language belongs to the Slavic languages, like Polish, Czech and Slovak. The main features of the Ukrainian language are:

mood: indicative, conditional, imperative

tense: present, past, future

person: first, second, third

gender: masculine, feminine, neuter

number: singular, plural

voice: active, passive, reflexive

aspect: perfective, imperfective

2. Verbal aspect

One of the most characteristic features of the Slavic languages (Ukrainian among them) is the representation of the aspect through verbal pairs. The aspect of a verb establishes whether the action is finished, is developing while the subject speaks, begins or is performed frequently. In English, verbal aspect has no external markers, but the endings, with the combination of the auxiliary verbs or periphrastic constructions, help us to determinate whether the action is finished or not.

However, Ukrainian verbs have not as many tenses as English or Spanish verbs have, therefore they need external markers of the aspect and they gather in verbal pairs. In general terms, we can say that the meaning of an English verb can be equivalent to two Ukrainian verbs and the speaker must choose one verb or another according to the aspect of the action.

For example, the verb write in English corresponds with two verbs писа́ти and написа́ти. The first verb, писа́ти, has an imperfective aspect, which denotes the process of the action. The imperfective aspect focuses on the development of the action, whether it be a durative action, a regular repetitive action or an irregular repetitive action. In English, this aspect can be translated with a present or a continuous tense like I write, I’m writing, I was writing, etc.

The second verb, написа́ти, gathers all tenses of the perfective aspect. The perfective aspect is centered in the conclusion or delimitation of the action. It always means a complete and finished process, therefore it is never used in the present tense. In English it is translated with a perfective tense like I wrote, I have written, I will write.

2.1. Formation of aspectual pairs

The main way to obtain an aspectual pair is by adding a prefix to the imperfective verb in order to form the perfective verb. Prefixes used to form perfective verbs are ви-, від-, з-, за-, на-, по-, про-, при-, с-. Below we show some examples (imperfective verbs followed by their perfective counterparts):

роби́ти > зроби́ти (do)

ба́чити > поба́чити (see)

ї́сти > з'ї́сти (eat)

пи́ти > ви́пити (drink)

Another way to form perfective verbs is by changing the suffix of the imperfective verbs:

ріша́ти > ріши́ти (decide)

торка́ти > торкну́ти (touch)

Finally, there are verbs with irregular aspectual pairs:

бра́ти > взя́ти (take)

знахо́дити > знайти́ (find)

прийма́ти > прийня́ти (accept)

3. Classification of verbs

Ukrainian verbs are divided into two conjugations, according to the vowel of the conjugation:

1st conjugation: the vowel is -е / -є

2nd conjugation: the vowel is