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Questions & Answers about Лікар оглянув сухожилля.
Why is there no word for the in this sentence?
Ukrainian does not have articles like the or a/an.
So Лікар оглянув сухожилля can be translated as The doctor examined the tendon or A doctor examined a tendon, depending on context. English has to choose an article; Ukrainian usually does not.
What form is оглянув, and what does it tell me?
Оглянув is:
- past tense
- masculine singular
- from the verb оглянути
It agrees with the subject, so it tells you the subject is grammatically masculine singular: лікар.
It also shows a completed action: the doctor finished examining it.
Compare:
- оглянув = examined, looked over, finished the examination
- оглядав = was examining / examined in a process-oriented or repeated sense
Why is лікар in that form?
Лікар is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence: the one doing the action.
In dictionary form, the word is also лікар, so here it appears unchanged.
Why is сухожилля in this form? Shouldn’t the object change?