На зупинці довга черга до автобуса.

In Ukrainian, the verb to be is often omitted in the present tense.

So instead of saying something literally like At the stop is a long queue, Ukrainian simply says:

На зупинці довга черга до автобуса.

This is completely normal and natural.
The idea of is / there is is understood from the structure.

Compare:

• На столі книжка. = There is a book on the table.
• У місті новий музей. = There is a new museum in the city.

So here, довга черга functions as the thing that exists, and на зупинці tells you where.

На зупинці uses the locative case because it tells you a location: at the stop.

The base form is зупинка.
After на when talking about location, it becomes:

• зупинка → на зупинці

This is a very common pattern:

• на вулиці = on the street
• на станції = at the station
• на зупинці = at the stop

A native English speaker may expect in or at, but Ukrainian often uses на with places like stops, stations, and similar public points.

Because довга has to agree with черга.

The noun черга is:

• feminine
• singular
• nominative

So the adjective must also be:

• feminine
• singular
• nominative

That gives:

• довгий = masculine
• довга = feminine
• довге = neuter

Since черга is feminine, you say довга черга.

The preposition до requires the genitive case.

The noun автобус changes like this:

• автобус = nominative
• до автобуса = genitive after до

So:

• до автобуса = to the bus / for the bus

In this kind of phrase, черга до... often means a queue for access to something or someone.

Very common examples:

• черга до каси = a line for the ticket office / cashier
• черга до лікаря = a line to see the doctor
• черга до автобуса = a line for the bus

Черга most often means queue / line.

But it can also mean turn, depending on context.

For example:

• довга черга = a long queue / line
• моя черга = my turn

So the core idea is an ordered sequence.
In this sentence, because of the context of a bus stop, it clearly means queue / line.

Ukrainian word order is more flexible than English word order.

Starting with На зупинці sets the scene first: At the stop...
Then the sentence tells you what is there: довга черга до автобуса.

So the structure is roughly:

location + thing that exists there

This is very natural in Ukrainian.

You could rearrange the sentence, but the emphasis would change. For example:

• На зупинці довга черга до автобуса. = neutral, natural
• Довга черга до автобуса на зупинці. = possible, but less natural in this context
• До автобуса на зупинці довга черга. = more marked, unusual emphasis

So the original order is a very normal way to say it.

Ukrainian has no articles, so it does not have separate words corresponding to English a/an and the.

That means:

• черга could mean a queue, the queue, or just queue in a general sense
• context tells you which one is intended

In English, you must choose:

• There is a long line for the bus at the stop
• There is the long line for the bus at the stop — usually not natural in this situation

In Ukrainian, the sentence itself does not force that distinction.

Yes, you can, and it is grammatical.

But in a simple present-tense description, Ukrainian usually prefers the version without є:

• На зупинці довга черга до автобуса.

Adding є makes the existence a bit more explicit:

• На зупинці є довга черга до автобуса.

This can sound slightly more emphatic, or more like you are specifically stating that such a queue exists. In many everyday contexts, the version without є sounds more natural and idiomatic.

Not exactly.

In Ukrainian, different prepositions are used with different expressions, and they do not always match English for.

Here, черга до автобуса is a natural way to say a queue for the bus.

But with other words, Ukrainian often uses different prepositions:

• чекати на автобус = to wait for the bus
• квиток на автобус = a ticket for the bus
• сісти в автобус = to get on / into the bus

So a learner should not assume that one English preposition like for always corresponds to one Ukrainian preposition. In this sentence, черга до автобуса is the key pattern to remember.