Ukrainian
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- Language: Russian
- Alternate names: украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayins'ka mova
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:ukr
- Language family: Indo-European, Slavic, East
- Number of speakers: 39,441,842
- Script: Cyrillic script
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Introduction
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. The language shares some vocabulary with the languages of the neighboring Slavic nations, most notably with Polish, Slovak in the West and Belarusan, Russian in the North and the East.
The verb
Verbs have:
- 2 aspects: imperfective and perfective
- 3 tenses: present/future, future, and past
- 3 moods: indicative, imperative, conditional
- 2 voices: active and middle/passive
Sample verb: нести
| Present | Past | Future I | Future II | Imperative | |
| Sg.1 | несу | нес (m) /
несла (f) / несло (n) | нестиму | буду нести | - |
| Sg.2 | несеш | нестимеш | будеш нести | несь! | |
| Sg.3 | несе | нестиме | буде нести | хай несе! / нехай несе! | |
| Pl.1 | несемо | несли | нестимо | будемо нести | несьмо! |
| Pl.2 | несете | нестимете | будете нести | несьте! | |
| Pl.3 | несуть | нестимуть | будуть нести | хай несуть! / нехай несуть! |