Собака гавкає.

The dog barks.

Breakdown of Собака гавкає.

• собака: the dog
• гавкати: to bark

Questions & Answers about Собака гавкає.

How do you pronounce Собака гавкає?

A good learner-friendly approximation is:

• соба́ка = so-BA-ka
• га́вкає = HAV-ka-ye

A few notes:

• The stress is usually соба́ка га́вкає.
• Ukrainian г is not a hard English g. It is closer to a soft, voiced h sound.
• є here sounds like ye.

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like so-BA-ka HAV-ka-ye.

Why does г in гавкає sound like h, not like English g?

Because in standard Ukrainian, the letter г is usually pronounced as [ɦ], which is much closer to an h-type sound than to a hard g.

So:

• гавкає starts with Ukrainian г
• it sounds closer to havkaie than gavkaie

If you want a true hard g sound in Ukrainian, the letter is usually ґ, not г.

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