Рекрутер читає резюме.

Because Ukrainian present tense often covers both meanings.

читає is the 3rd person singular present form of читати. Depending on context, it can mean:

• reads — habitual or general action
• is reading — action happening right now

So Рекрутер читає резюме can mean either:

• The recruiter reads résumés
• The recruiter is reading a/the résumé

Context tells you which one is meant.

Читати is the infinitive, meaning to read.

The form читає is the present-tense form for he/she/it and also for nouns like рекрутер.

A few present-tense forms of читати:

• я читаю — I read / am reading
• ти читаєш — you read / are reading
• він / вона читає — he / she reads / is reading
• ми читаємо — we read / are reading
• ви читаєте — you read / are reading
• вони читають — they read / are reading

So in this sentence, рекрутер matches читає because it is 3rd person singular.

Here резюме is the direct object, so functionally it is in the accusative case.

However, резюме is an indeclinable borrowed noun, which means its form usually stays the same in all cases. So you get:

• nominative: резюме
• accusative: резюме
• and usually the same in other cases too

That is why it does not visibly change after читає.

You know mainly from:

• the meaning of the verb читати, which normally takes something being read
• the normal word order
• context

In Рекрутер читає резюме, the default interpretation is:

• Рекрутер = subject
• читає = verb
• резюме = object

So even though резюме does not visibly change, it is still understood as the thing being read.

Because Ukrainian has no articles.

Unlike English, Ukrainian does not use words like a, an, or the. So резюме can mean:

• a résumé
• the résumé
• sometimes even résumés, depending on context

You figure that out from the situation, not from an article.

Yes, рекрутер is grammatically masculine.

A very common pattern in Ukrainian is:

• nouns ending in a consonant are often masculine

Since рекрутер ends in -р, it is treated as masculine.

In this present-tense sentence, that does not change the verb form, because він читає and вона читає both use читає. But grammatical gender matters in other situations, especially in the past tense.

You may also hear a feminine form рекрутерка for a female recruiter.

Yes, Ukrainian often allows the subject to be omitted if it is already clear from context.

So Читає резюме could mean:

• He is reading a résumé
• She is reading a résumé

But without context, it sounds less complete because the verb form читає does not tell you whether the subject is he, she, or it. Including рекрутер makes the sentence clear.

Yes. Ukrainian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Рекрутер читає резюме.

But you can change the order for emphasis:

• Резюме читає рекрутер. — emphasizes it is the recruiter who is reading it
• Резюме рекрутер читає. — puts extra focus on résumé

The basic meaning stays similar, but the emphasis changes. For a beginner, subject + verb + object is the safest pattern.

In читає, the letter є represents a ye sound.

So читає is pronounced roughly like:

• chy-TA-ye

It is not a silent letter. It forms its own syllable here, so the word has three syllables:

• чи-та-є

This is useful because English speakers often want to compress it too much, but in Ukrainian the ending is clearly heard.

Yes, читати is imperfective.

That means it describes:

• an ongoing action
• a repeated action
• a general activity

So Рекрутер читає резюме means the recruiter is reading it, or reads it in general.

A common perfective partner is прочитати — to read through / to finish reading.

Then you get:

• Рекрутер прочитає резюме.

This usually means:

• The recruiter will read the résumé
• or more specifically, will finish reading the résumé

That happens because in Ukrainian, perfective verbs do not normally have a true present meaning; their present-looking forms usually refer to the future.

Here it is most naturally understood as singular: a/the résumé.

But the form резюме is often the same in both singular and plural because it is indeclinable. Context shows the difference.

For example:

• одне резюме — one résumé
• два резюме — two résumés

So the word itself may stay the same, while other words around it show the number.

No, it is a borrowed word, originally from French, and it entered many languages in similar forms.

Because it is borrowed, it keeps some unusual behavior for Ukrainian, especially the fact that it is indeclinable. That is why learners notice that it does not change the way many native Ukrainian nouns do.