Мій словник лежить на столі біля комп’ютера.

Мій means my. It changes form to agree with the noun it describes.

Here, the noun is словник (dictionary), which is:

• masculine
• singular
• nominative case

So the correct form is мій.

A few comparisons:

• мій словник = my dictionary
• моя книга = my book
• моє вікно = my window
• мої книги = my books

Словник is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case, which is the dictionary form of the noun.

In this sentence, словник is the thing that лежить (is lying / lies), so nominative is exactly what you would expect for the subject.

Ukrainian often uses verbs like лежати (to lie), стояти (to stand), and висіти (to hang) when talking about where something is located.

So лежить is very natural for an object like a dictionary resting on a table.

This is more specific than English is:

• словник лежить на столі = the dictionary is lying on the table
• лампа стоїть на столі = the lamp is standing on the table
• картина висить на стіні = the picture is hanging on the wall

You could also hear a shorter sentence like Мій словник на столі, which simply means My dictionary is on the table. Ukrainian often omits a present-tense to be.

Лежить is the 3rd person singular present tense form of лежати (to lie).

So:

• я лежу = I lie / am lying
• ти лежиш = you lie / are lying
• він / вона / воно лежить = he / she / it lies / is lying
• вони лежать = they lie / are lying

Because словник is singular and treated as it, лежить is the correct form.

Because this sentence describes location, not movement.

With на:

• на стіл = onto the table, toward the table → motion
• на столі = on the table → location

So:

• Поклади словник на стіл. = Put the dictionary onto the table.
• Словник лежить на столі. = The dictionary is lying on the table.

This is a very important pattern in Ukrainian:

• motion often uses the accusative
• location often uses the locative

Because after на in the meaning of on for location, the noun usually goes into the locative case.

The noun стіл becomes столі in the locative singular.

So:

• nominative: стіл = table
• locative: на столі = on the table

This kind of vowel change is normal in Ukrainian declension.

Because the preposition біля (near, by) requires the genitive case.

So:

• nominative: комп’ютер
• genitive: комп’ютера

That is why the sentence has біля комп’ютера.

Other examples with біля:

• біля будинку = near the house
• біля вікна = near the window
• біля машини = near the car

Біля means near, by, or sometimes next to, depending on context.

In this sentence, біля комп’ютера means the table location is near the computer, or the dictionary is lying on the table in the area near the computer.

It does not always mean direct physical contact. If you want to be more explicit about right next to, Ukrainian often uses:

• поруч із комп’ютером = next to / beside the computer

So:

• біля комп’ютера = near the computer
• поруч із комп’ютером = right beside the computer

No, Ukrainian word order is fairly flexible. The sentence Мій словник лежить на столі біля комп’ютера is neutral and natural, but other orders are also possible.

For example:

• Мій словник лежить на столі біля комп’ютера. = neutral
• На столі біля комп’ютера лежить мій словник. = emphasizes location first
• Біля комп’ютера на столі лежить мій словник. = also emphasizes place

Because Ukrainian uses case endings, word order often affects focus and emphasis more than basic grammar.

Grammatically, you might understand it, but it sounds less natural in ordinary Ukrainian.

In the present tense, Ukrainian usually does not use є the way English uses is in simple location statements.

More natural options are:

• Мій словник на столі біля комп’ютера.
• Мій словник лежить на столі біля комп’ютера.

Using є can sound more emphatic, formal, or like you are stressing existence rather than simple location.

The apostrophe in Ukrainian shows that the consonant before it is not softened, and the following vowel begins with a y-like sound.

So п’ю in комп’ютер is pronounced roughly like pyu, not like a softened p plus a simple vowel.

This is a normal spelling feature in Ukrainian after certain consonants, especially labials like б, п, в, м, ф.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

Мій словник лежить на столі біля комп’ютера
≈ Miy slov-NYK le-ZHYT na sto-LEE BEE-lia komp-YU-te-ra

Approximate stress:

• мій
• словни́к
• лежи́ть
• столі́
• бі́ля
• комп’ю́тера

A few useful sound notes:

• і sounds like English ee in see
• и is a different vowel, more central and shorter
• г in Ukrainian is not the hard English g
• ть at the end of лежить is soft

The possessive and probably the noun form would change to match the noun.

For example:

• Моя книга лежить на столі. = My book is lying on the table.
• Мої книги лежать на столі. = My books are lying on the table.

Notice two things:

1. мій / моя / мої changes to agree with the noun
2. the verb also changes:
   • singular: лежить
   • plural: лежать

So agreement is important in Ukrainian.