Великий синій автобус

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About this article

Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Transport, city, directions, prices, colors, building descriptions.

A story about a bus ride through the city. A1 readers will learn about city stops, types of transport, and simple city landmarks through a child's eyes.

After reading

Article learning block

Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.

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Phrases for training

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Я чекаю на автобус.

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I am waiting for the bus.

Present tense affirmative sentence. Verb "чекати" (to wait) + "на" + accusative case.

Use this phrase to say you are waiting for the bus at a stop.

Мене звати Олег.

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My name is Oleg.

Used for self-introduction. "Мене звати" + name in nominative.

Standard way to introduce yourself in Ukrainian.

Мені потрібно їхати в центр міста до бабусі.

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I need to go to the city center to see my grandmother.

"Мені потрібно" uses the dative case. "Їхати в" + accusative shows direction of movement.

Useful structure for saying you need to travel somewhere.

великий синій автобус

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Big blue bus.

Two adjectives before the noun: "великий" (size) + "синій" (colour) + "автобус". Order: adjective + noun.

In Ukrainian, adjectives come before the noun.

Автобус під'їжджає до зупинки повільно.

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The bus approaches the stop slowly.

Verb "під'їжджати" (imperfective) — movement towards a destination. "До" + genitive: зупинки.

Learn "під'їжджати до" to describe transport approaching a stop.

Квиток коштує десять гривень.

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The ticket costs ten hryvnias.

"Коштувати" means "to cost". "Десять гривень" — numeral in genitive: гривень.

Use this phrase to ask about or state the ticket price.

Key words

Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.

Stop

зупинка

Stop — a place where the bus makes a stop.

Passengers wait for transport and get off here. Also known as a station or halt.

Essential word for getting around the city and using public transport.

Ticket

квиток

Ticket — a document confirming payment for travel.

Tickets are bought from the driver or at a counter. Can be paper or electronic.

Necessary word for buying tickets and understanding transport prices.

Passenger

пасажир

Passenger — a person traveling in transport.

A person traveling by bus, train, plane, etc.

Useful for describing people in transport.

Driver

водій

Driver — a person who operates transport.

A bus driver controls the bus and sells tickets.

The driver is the key person on public transport.

Bus

автобус

Bus — a large vehicle for transporting people.

Buses travel around the city on a schedule. They stop at bus stops.

The central word of the article and city transport in general.

Tram

трамвай

Tram — an electric transport that runs on rails.

Trams only travel where there are tracks. They do not drive on roads.

Another type of city transport.

Grammar in context

Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.

Dative case: necessity

Мені потрібно їхати

I need to go

"Мені потрібно" expresses necessity. The pronoun is in the dative case: я → мені.

Use this pattern to say you need to do something.

Self-introduction: My name is

Мене звати

My name is

"Мене звати" is a special construction for stating your name, not "я є". The name is in nominative case.

Standard way to introduce yourself in Ukrainian.

Accusative case: direction

їхати в центр міста

to go to the city center

"В" + accusative shows direction of movement into a place: city → в місто, country → в країну.

Needed to describe where you are going.

Genitive case: location

біля вікна

by the window

"Біля" + genitive case shows location next to something: вікно → біля вікна, двері → біля дверей.