Подруга чхає і кашляє, але все одно хоче йти на лекцію.

Подруга is the feminine form of friend: a female friend.

Depending on context, it can also mean girlfriend, but not always. In a neutral sentence like this one, the safest reading is usually female friend.

Related forms:

• друг = male friend
• подруга = female friend

Ukrainian does not have articles like English a/an and the.

So:

• подруга can mean a friend or the friend
• лекцію can mean a lecture or the lecture

Context tells you which one is meant. This is very normal in Ukrainian.

In Ukrainian, the present tense often covers both:

• simple present: sneezes, coughs
• present continuous: is sneezing, is coughing

So:

• чхає = sneezes / is sneezing
• кашляє = coughs / is coughing

Ukrainian does not need a separate verb like English is to form the continuous.

They are all 3rd person singular present tense forms, matching подруга = she / the female friend.

Their dictionary forms are:

• чхати = to sneeze
• кашляти = to cough
• хотіти = to want

So:

• подруга чхає = the friend sneezes / is sneezing
• подруга кашляє = the friend coughs / is coughing
• подруга хоче = the friend wants

After хотіти (to want), Ukrainian normally uses the infinitive of the second verb, just like English:

• хоче йти = wants to go
• хоче читати = wants to read
• хоче спати = wants to sleep

So йти stays in the infinitive because it depends on хоче.

This is a very common learner question.

Both verbs can mean to go, but they are used differently:

• йти = to go in one direction, a specific trip, often happening now or intended as one movement
• ходити = to go habitually, repeatedly, or in general

In this sentence, the friend wants to go to one specific lecture, so йти makes sense.

Compare:

• Вона хоче йти на лекцію. = She wants to go to the lecture.
• Вона хоче ходити на лекції. = She wants to attend lectures regularly / go to lectures in general.

Все одно is a fixed expression meaning:

• all the same
• anyway
• still

In this sentence, it means something like despite that or even so:

• Подруга чхає і кашляє, але все одно хоче йти на лекцію.
• The friend is sneezing and coughing, but still wants to go to the lecture.

It does not mean everything one literally in normal translation; it works as an idiomatic phrase.

Because this sentence expresses motion toward something.

After verbs of motion, Ukrainian often uses:

• на + accusative for going to an event/place
• в/у + accusative for going into something

Here:

• на лекцію = to the lecture

But if you are already there, you would use the locative:

• на лекції = at the lecture

Compare:

• Вона йде на лекцію. = She is going to the lecture.
• Вона на лекції. = She is at the lecture.

Ukrainian often leaves out subject pronouns when they are already clear from context.

Here, подруга is named at the start, so the sentence does not need вона again.

English usually repeats the subject more often, but Ukrainian is comfortable with:

• Подруга чхає і кашляє, але все одно хоче...

The subject is understood to stay the same all the way through.

These words can feel awkward at first.

A rough guide:

• чхає ≈ CHKHÁ-ye
  The beginning чх is a real consonant cluster: first ч, then х.
• кашляє ≈ KASH-lya-ye

A few helpful pronunciation notes:

• є often sounds like ye
• я after a consonant often adds a ya sound
• ль in кашляє is a soft l

You do not need to insert extra vowels between the consonants unless a native speaker does.

They are conjunctions:

• і = and
• але = but

So the structure is:

• Подруга чхає і кашляє = The friend is sneezing and coughing
• але все одно хоче йти на лекцію = but still wants to go to the lecture

This is a very natural Ukrainian sentence pattern.