How to use adjectives in Ukrainian

How to use adjectives in Ukrainian

You want to learn how to use adjectives in Ukrainian? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Ukrainian lessons complete with useful examples. Big, small, happy, sad... we'll teach you all you need to know about Ukrainian adjectives.

Ukrainian adjectives

Adjectives are generally used to describe nouns. Adjectives come before the noun in Ukrainian as in English. Adjectives in Ukrainian agree with the noun they describe. This means that adjectives that describe a feminine noun have a special form.

Examples

низький хлопчик
the short boy
щасливий хлопчик
the happy boy
сильний хлопчик
the strong boy
високий хлопчик
the tall boy
слабенький хлопчик
the weak boy
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Step 7 : Adjectives in Ukrainian

Adjectives are used to describe nouns. To get started, we suggest you learn the three Ukrainian adjectives великий, маленький and старий (big, small, old). Using the nouns книга, стілець and двері (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use each adjective with each noun (the big book, the old chair, the small door). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Ukrainian adjectives including useful examples. After you've learned to use the adjectives великий, маленький and старий with the nouns книга, стілець and двері you can move on to Step 8 (Ukrainian Verbs).

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