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Questions & Answers about Вона одягається вранці.
What does the verb form одягається represent in this sentence?
The word одягається is the 3rd person singular present tense of the imperfective reflexive verb одягатися, meaning to dress oneself.
What does the suffix -ся in одягається indicate?
The suffix -ся makes the verb reflexive, showing that the subject (here вона) performs the action on herself. It can also signal a middle or passive voice nuance in Ukrainian.
What is the infinitive of одягається?
The infinitive is одягатися, which literally means to get dressed or to dress oneself, and it is imperfective in aspect.
How is вранці used here, and what part of speech is it?
Вранці is an adverb of time (a locative form of the noun ранок) that answers when. In this sentence it means in the morning.
Where is the stress in вранці, and how is it pronounced?
The stress is on the first syllable: ВРАнці. Phonetically you’d say [ˈwran.t͡si].
Is the pronoun вона necessary? Could you drop it?
You can drop вона because Ukrainian verbs already mark person and number. Одягається вранці will be understood as she gets dressed in the morning if context makes it clear.
Can I change the word order, for example Вранці вона одягається?
Yes. Ukrainian has a flexible word order. Вранці вона одягається and Вона одягається вранці both mean she gets dressed in the morning, though fronting вранці slightly emphasizes when the action happens.
What’s the difference between вранці and зранку?
Both mean in the morning, but зранку often implies from early morning (at the very start of the day), while вранці is more neutral, covering the morning period in general.