Добрий день, бабусю
Good Day, Grandma
Before you read
Ukrainian drops the verb "is" in a simple statement: Це кав'ярня just means "This is a café," word for word "This café." Use це to point at or identify something, and є only when you mean "there is, there are": Тут є фотографія, There is a photograph here.
To say "not," put не directly in front of the word you are denying: Це не Канада, This is not Canada. Львів не маленький, Lviv is not small. No other changes needed.
Ukrainian adjectives match the noun's gender. Кав'ярня is feminine, so маленька and стара end in а. Двері takes a plural ending: старі. You will meet старий (masculine) and стара (feminine) both in this chapter.
у goes with places you are inside: у Львові, у кав'ярні. на goes with surfaces, open places, and the kitchen for reasons no one remembers: на Ринку, на кухні. Just notice both mean roughly "in" or "at", and the noun after them often changes its ending a little, like Львові from Львів.
Chapter 1 complete
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