Questions & Answers about Ми чекаємо шістдесят хвилин.
A careful pronunciation is:
Ми чека́ємо шістдеся́т хвили́н
Approximate pronunciation: my che-KA-ye-mo shees-ty-de-SYAT khvy-LIN
A few notes:
- Ми = my, with a short Ukrainian и sound, not exactly English ee
- ч sounds like English ch
- х is a throaty sound, like the ch in Scottish loch
- The stress falls on:
- чека́ємо
- шістдеся́т
- хвили́н
чекаємо is the 1st person plural present tense form of чекати.
So:
- чекати = to wait
- чекаю = I wait / I am waiting
- чекаєш = you wait
- чекає = he/she/it waits
- чекаємо = we wait / we are waiting
In this sentence, чекаємо tells you the subject is we.