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Every guide's words, taught in order with spaced repetition.
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Guides
Short, sourced explainers on how Ukrainian vocabulary works, every number read from the data.
- 1The first 100 Ukrainian wordsThe hundred most frequent words with a validated level. The top 100 words on the list make up 33.12% of running Ukrainian text.
- 2How many Ukrainian words do you need?About 1,856 validated words get you past half of running text; reading comfortably takes far more.
- 3What A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1 mean on this siteEvery level here comes from a validated, published profile of Ukrainian vocabulary, not a guess or a model's prediction.
- 4Where the stress falls in Ukrainian, and where sources disagreeEvery word page marks its stress. Checked against an independent dictionary, the marks agree 99.8% of the time; here are the 16 cases that do not.
- 5Russianisms on a Ukrainian frequency list83 words on the 12,000-word list are flagged by open proofing tools as calques or loans with a preferred Ukrainian form.
- 6Ukrainian verbs of motion: the eight pairsUkrainian has two verbs for most kinds of going: one for a single trip in one direction, one for everything else.
- 7Aspect pairs: why Ukrainian verbs come in twosOf the 443 B1 verbs on the list, 378 have a listed aspect partner. Learn them as pairs.
- 8A study plan built on frequencyLearn the words that cover the most text first, with spaced repetition, and measure coverage instead of guessing.
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Anki decks
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