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Questions & Answers about Вона носить червону сукню.
What part of speech is Вона, and is it necessary?
Вона is the third-person singular feminine pronoun meaning she. Ukrainian verbs carry person and number endings, so subject pronouns are optional. However, since носить is identical for he, she, and it in the present tense, including Вона clarifies that the subject is feminine.
Can you drop Вона and just say Носить червону сукню?
Grammatically, you could say Носить червону сукню, and it will mean “She/He/It wears a red dress,” but you’ll lose clarity about who is doing the action and its gender. In everyday speech, dropping the pronoun requires context to know who the subject is.
What is the verb носить, and what aspect and tense is it?
Носить is the third-person singular present tense form of the imperfective verb носити (to wear; to carry). The imperfective aspect expresses an ongoing or habitual action—here it means she wears or she is wearing.
Why do both червону and сукню end in –у, and what case is used?
They are in the accusative case, which marks the direct object (“what is being worn”). Feminine singular nouns of the –ня type (like сукня) take –ю in the accusative (сукня → сукню). Adjectives agree with their nouns in gender, number, and case, so червоний changes to червону in the feminine singular accusative.
What’s the difference between носити and надягати (or одягати)?
- Носити means to wear or to carry, focusing on the state of having clothes on or carrying something.
- Надягати / одягати means to put on clothes or dress someone, focusing on the action of putting clothes on.
So Вона носить сукню = She wears the dress, while Вона надягає/одягає сукню = She puts on the dress.
How do you ask “What is she wearing?” in Ukrainian?
You can say:
Що вона носить? (literal: What is she wearing?)
Colloquially, you might also hear У чому вона? or Що на ній?, but Що вона носить? is the most direct.
Can you change the word order in this sentence, and what effect would that have?
Ukrainian has relatively free word order.
- Вона носить червону сукню is the neutral S–V–O order.
- Червону сукню вона носить emphasizes червону сукню (the red dress), like saying “It’s the red dress that she wears.”
Changing word order highlights or focuses different parts of the sentence without altering its core meaning.