Урок має п’ятнадцять питань.

Має means has.

It is the 3rd person singular present tense of мати = to have.

So:

• урок має = the lesson has

A few related forms of мати are:

• я маю = I have
• ти маєш = you have
• він / вона / воно має = he / she / it has
• ми маємо = we have
• ви маєте = you have
• вони мають = they have

Because after 15, Ukrainian uses the genitive plural form of the noun.

The base noun is:

• питання = question

But after numbers like 5, 6, 7 ... 15 ... 20 ..., the noun usually goes into the genitive plural:

• п’ятнадцять питань = fifteen questions

This is a very important number rule in Ukrainian:

• 1 → usually nominative singular
• 2, 3, 4 → usually nominative plural
• 5 and higher → usually genitive plural

So:

• одне питання = one question
• два питання = two questions
• п’ять питань = five questions
• п’ятнадцять питань = fifteen questions

Питань is genitive plural.

The noun is питання, and its important forms here are:

• питання = nominative singular
• питання = nominative plural
• питань = genitive plural

English speakers often notice that питання can mean either question or questions depending on grammar, and that питань looks quite different. That is normal for this noun.

In this sentence, питань is used because of the numeral п’ятнадцять.

The apostrophe in Ukrainian is not like the English apostrophe for possession or contraction.

In п’ятнадцять, it shows that the п and the following я are pronounced separately, with a y-sound:

• п’я sounds roughly like pya

So п’ять is roughly pyat’, not a softened п plus some vowel.

You will often see this apostrophe after labial consonants such as б, п, в, м, ф before я, ю, є, ї.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is:

uROK MAye pyaTNA-dtsyat pyTAN’

More carefully:

• Урок = uROK
• має = MA-ye
• п’ятнадцять = pyaTNA-dtsyat’
• питань = pyTAN’

A rough full pronunciation: uROK MAye pyaTNA-dtsyat pyTAN’

A few notes:

• є in має sounds like ye
• the apostrophe in п’ятнадцять gives you pya
• the final ь in питань is not a vowel; it softens the н

The soft sign (ь) does not have its own sound. It makes the preceding consonant soft.

So in питань, the final нь is a soft n sound.

You can think of:

• н = hard n
• нь = soft n

English does not have this exact spelling system, so this can feel unfamiliar at first. The main thing is: ь changes the consonant before it; it does not add a separate vowel.

Because Ukrainian does not have articles like a / an / the.

So:

• урок can mean a lesson or the lesson
• the exact meaning depends on context

In this sentence, English may translate it as:

• The lesson has fifteen questions
• or A lesson has fifteen questions

Usually the context tells you which one is natural.

Yes, often it can.

Урок commonly means:

• lesson
• a class period at school
• sometimes the material or unit being studied

So depending on context, Урок має п’ятнадцять питань could be understood as:

• The lesson has fifteen questions
• The class/lesson contains fifteen questions

In many textbook contexts, урок is best understood as lesson.

Yes. Ukrainian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Урок має п’ятнадцять питань.

That simply presents the information in a straightforward way.

You could also change the order for emphasis, for example:

• П’ятнадцять питань має урок.

That sounds more marked and emphasizes fifteen questions.

So the original sentence is the most neutral and standard version.

Yes, you could.

• має = has
• містить = contains

So:

• Урок має п’ятнадцять питань = The lesson has fifteen questions
• Урок містить п’ятнадцять питань = The lesson contains fifteen questions

Both are grammatical.
Має is very natural and everyday.
Містить sounds a bit more formal or more like describing contents.

This is one of the most useful things to learn from this sentence.

With питання:

• одне питання = one question
• два питання = two questions
• три питання = three questions
• чотири питання = four questions
• п’ять питань = five questions
• п’ятнадцять питань = fifteen questions
• двадцять одне питання = twenty-one questions
• двадцять два питання = twenty-two questions
• двадцять п’ять питань = twenty-five questions

A helpful shortcut:

• numbers ending in 1 → often питання
• numbers ending in 2, 3, 4 → often питання
• numbers ending in 5–9, 0, and 11–14 → питань

So 15 correctly gives питань.