Лікар перевірив пульс під час обстеження.

Перевірив is the perfective past form, so it presents the action as completed: the doctor checked the pulse and finished doing so.

By contrast, перевіряв is imperfective, which would focus more on the process, repeated action, or ongoing action. In many contexts:

• Лікар перевірив пульс = The doctor checked the pulse / has checked the pulse
• Лікар перевіряв пульс = The doctor was checking the pulse / used to check the pulse

So in this sentence, перевірив fits a single completed action during the examination.

Лікар is in the nominative singular because it is the subject of the sentence — the person doing the action.

Ukrainian usually marks grammatical roles through case endings, and the subject is normally in the nominative case.

Here:

• лікар = doctor (subject)
• перевірив = checked
• пульс = pulse

Пульс is in the accusative singular, because it is the direct object of перевірив — it is the thing being checked.

However, for many masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular looks exactly like the nominative singular. That is why пульс does not visibly change here.

So:

• nominative: пульс
• accusative: пульс

This is very common in Ukrainian.

Під час means during.

The expression під час requires the following noun to be in the genitive case. That is why we get:

• base form: обстеження = examination
• genitive singular: обстеження

In this particular noun, the genitive singular looks the same as the nominative singular, so there is no visible change.

So:

• під час обстеження = during the examination

Обстеження usually means a medical examination, check-up, or assessment of a patient’s condition.

Depending on context, it can be translated as:

• examination
• medical examination
• check-up
• sometimes evaluation or testing

It is more specifically medical/clinical than a school-type exam.

Yes. Ukrainian word order is fairly flexible because case endings show grammatical roles. The neutral order here is:

• Лікар перевірив пульс під час обстеження.

But you could also say, for example:

• Під час обстеження лікар перевірив пульс.
• Пульс лікар перевірив під час обстеження.

These versions are grammatically possible, but they may shift the focus or emphasis:

• starting with під час обстеження emphasizes when
• starting with пульс emphasizes what was checked

So the original sentence is a natural, neutral way to say it.

Ukrainian has no articles like English a/an/the.

So лікар can mean:

• a doctor
• the doctor

and пульс can mean:

• a pulse
• the pulse

The exact meaning depends on the context. In this sentence, English would usually say The doctor checked the pulse during the examination, but Ukrainian does not need separate words for the.

The stress is перевІрив.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• пе = like pe in pet, but shorter
• ре = short re
• ві = vee
• рив = roughly ryv

So approximately: pe-re-VEE-ryv

A few pronunciation notes:

• Ukrainian і is like ee in see
• р is rolled or tapped
• unstressed vowels are usually pronounced more clearly than in English

Not necessarily. Лікар is a grammatically masculine noun, but it can refer to a doctor in general and is often used for a person of either sex, especially in standard or formal usage.

If you specifically want to refer to a female doctor, you may also hear лікарка, which is a feminine form and is now quite common.

So:

• лікар = doctor (general / masculine grammatical form)
• лікарка = female doctor

In this sentence, лікар is the standard form.

In Ukrainian, past tense verbs agree in gender and number with the subject in the singular.

Because the subject is лікар, a grammatically masculine noun, the verb is masculine too:

• masculine: перевірив
• feminine: перевірила
• neuter: перевірило
• plural: перевірили

So if the subject were лікарка, you would say:

• Лікарка перевірила пульс під час обстеження.

Yes, in many contexts it can be translated naturally that way in English.

Literally, під час обстеження means during the examination, but depending on the sentence, English may prefer:

• during the examination
• while examining the patient
• in the course of the examination

So the Ukrainian phrase is a noun-based expression, while English may sometimes use a clause or participle to sound more natural.