Гравець тут.

In Ukrainian, the present-tense verb to be is usually not stated in simple sentences like this.

So:

• Гравець тут = literally Player here
• natural English meaning = The player is here

This is completely normal Ukrainian. You do not usually need to add є here.

It can mean either a player or the player, depending on context.

Ukrainian has no articles like English a and the, so the sentence itself does not mark that difference. You understand it from the situation:

• Гравець тут could mean A player is here
• or The player is here

If your learning material gives The player is here, that is a valid translation.

Гравець is in the nominative singular.

That is the basic dictionary form of the noun, and here it works as the subject of the sentence:

• гравець = the player / a player
• тут = here

So the structure is basically:

• [subject] + [location]

Тут is an adverb of place, meaning here.

It does not change for case, gender, or number. It simply tells you the location of the subject.

So in Гравець тут, тут tells us where the player is.

A rough pronunciation is:

hra-VEHTS' toot

A few helpful notes:

• г in Ukrainian is usually like a soft voiced h, not a hard English g
• the stress in гравець falls on the last syllable: гравЕць
• ць at the end is a soft ts sound
• тут sounds close to toot, but with a normal Ukrainian t

So the whole sentence is approximately:

hra-VEHTS' toot

The ь is the soft sign. It does not have its own sound, but it makes the preceding consonant softer.

In гравець, it softens the final ц, so ць is pronounced more softly than a plain ц.

This is a very common feature of Ukrainian spelling and pronunciation.

Yes, you can. Ukrainian word order is more flexible than English word order.

Both of these are possible:

• Гравець тут
• Тут гравець

The difference is mostly about focus or emphasis:

• Гравець тут puts the topic first: The player is here
• Тут гравець can sound more like Here is the player or There is a player here, depending on context

So the original sentence is simple and natural, but the other order is possible too.

You usually would not say that in normal everyday Ukrainian.

For simple present-tense sentences with to be, Ukrainian normally omits the verb:

• natural: Гравець тут
• less natural in this context: Гравець є тут

The word є is more often used when you want to stress existence, or in certain formal, emphatic, or special sentence types. For this basic sentence, Гравець тут is the normal choice.

The plural would be:

Гравці тут. = The players are here / Players are here

Here:

• гравець = singular
• гравці = plural

This is a useful pattern to remember:

• Гравець тут = The player is here
• Гравці тут = The players are here