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Questions & Answers about Овочі корисні.
What does Овочі mean?
It’s the plural of овоч, meaning vegetables.
What does корисні mean?
It’s the plural form of корисний, meaning healthy or beneficial.
Why is there no verb like are in this sentence?
In Ukrainian the present-tense copula є (to be) is usually omitted. So Овочі корисні literally means Vegetables are healthy.
Why are there no articles (the, a/an) in Ukrainian here?
Ukrainian doesn’t have definite or indefinite articles. Nouns stand alone without the or a/an.
What case and number is Овочі?
It’s in the nominative plural (it’s the subject of the sentence).
How does the adjective корисні agree with the noun in gender, number, and case?
Ukrainian adjectives agree with nouns in gender, number, and case. Корисні is nominative plural, which is the same form for all genders in the plural.
Why is корисні placed after Овочі instead of before, as in English?
Here корисні is not an attributive adjective (healthy vegetables) but a predicate adjective (are healthy). Predicate adjectives normally follow the noun (subject) in Ukrainian.
Could you include the verb є (to be) in this sentence? If so, how would it look?
Yes. You can say Овочі є корисні, but most speakers omit є in the present tense.
How do you pronounce Овочі корисні, and how would you transliterate it into Latin letters?
Pronunciation (IPA): [ˈɔwɔt͡ʃi koˈrɪsni], with stress on the first syllables of each word.
Transliteration: Ovochi korysni.