"Моя сестра - дизайнер."
Translation:My sister is a designer.
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In English, we have a similar format, like: "My sister - the designer." Is the dash being used differently here? Like, the dash literally means "is a"?
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It's the latter. The verb to be isn't usually used in the present tense in modern Ukrainian, so the – indicates where it was omitted.
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I agree with what jmago said. If the ommittance of "to be" is hard to understand in the beginning, you can use a construction like "ye +ajective/pronoun+noun" with changed affixes: moya sestra ye dyzaynerom/Моя сестра є дизайнером. Another example, with an ajective: A rose is a beautiful flower: Троянда є красивою квіткою/Troyanda ye krasyvoyu kvitkoyu.
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Is the dash obligatory? is it possible to just write 'Моя сестра дизайнер'.
