На сніданок я беру банан і йогурт.

На сніданок is the standard Ukrainian way to say for breakfast.

• на often means on, but in expressions with meals it commonly means for
• Compare:
  • на сніданок = for breakfast
  • на обід = for lunch
  • на вечерю = for dinner

So this is an idiomatic Ukrainian pattern, not a word-for-word copy of English.

Here сніданок is in the accusative case because the expression на + accusative is used for for breakfast / for lunch / for dinner.

It looks unchanged because:

• сніданок is a masculine inanimate noun
• in the singular, masculine inanimate accusative is usually the same as the nominative

So:

• nominative: сніданок
• accusative: сніданок

The case changes in function, but not in visible form.

Yes, беру literally means I take.

Its dictionary form is брати = to take.

In food contexts, брати can mean:

• to take
• to choose
• to have (especially in the sense of selecting something to eat)

So На сніданок я беру банан і йогурт sounds like For breakfast, I have / I take a banana and yogurt.

If you want to focus more directly on the act of eating, you could also say:

• На сніданок я їм банан і йогурт. = For breakfast I eat a banana and yogurt.

Both are possible, but беру emphasizes choice/selection more than їм does.

They are direct objects, so they are in the accusative case.

But again, both nouns are:

• masculine
• inanimate
• singular

For that type of noun, the accusative singular is usually identical to the nominative singular.

So:

• банан → accusative банан
• йогурт → accusative йогурт

That is why they do not visibly change.

Yes, Ukrainian often drops subject pronouns when they are clear from the verb ending.

• беру already means I take
• so На сніданок беру банан і йогурт is perfectly natural

Including я can:

• make the sentence a little clearer
• add emphasis
• sound slightly more explicit

So both are possible:

• На сніданок я беру банан і йогурт.
• На сніданок беру банан і йогурт.

The word order is fairly flexible.

This sentence starts with На сніданок to set the context first: as for breakfast...

Other possible orders include:

• Я беру банан і йогурт на сніданок.
• Банан і йогурт я беру на сніданок.

They are all grammatical, but the emphasis changes.

• На сніданок я беру... = neutral, topic first
• Я беру... = focuses more on I
• Банан і йогурт я беру... = focuses more on the foods

The original sentence is very natural and neutral.

Yes, і and та can both mean and.

In this sentence, і is the most neutral and common choice:

• банан і йогурт

You could also hear та, but it can sound a bit more stylistic or be chosen for smoother pronunciation in some contexts.

For a learner, the safest default is:

• і = the usual everyday and

Ukrainian has no articles.

So nouns like банан and йогурт do not have separate words for:

• a banana
• the banana

Context tells you which meaning is intended.

In this sentence, English naturally uses a banana and yogurt, but Ukrainian simply says:

• банан і йогурт

This is completely normal.

Беру is the 1st person singular present tense form of брати.

So:

• брати = to take
• беру = I take / I am taking

This verb has a stem change, which is why the form is not браю or anything similarly predictable.

A few present-tense forms are:

• я беру = I take
• ти береш = you take
• він / вона бере = he / she takes
• ми беремо = we take
• ви берете = you take
• вони беруть = they take

So беру is just the normal present-tense form, even though it may look irregular at first.

A helpful stress guide is:

• На сніДАнок я беРУ баНАН і йоГУРТ.

A few pronunciation notes:

• я sounds like ya
• ю would sound like yu, but there is no ю here
• г in Ukrainian is usually not a hard English g; it is closer to a voiced h sound
• so йогурт does not start with a hard g sound

A rough English-friendly approximation is:

• na sni-DA-nok ya be-RU ba-NAN i yo-HURT

That approximation is not perfect, but it is useful for getting started.