"Вони студенти?"

Translation: Are they students?

[SonACarl]

How do you know if this question is "are there (any) students?" VS "Are they (them) students?"

[deactivated user]

"Are there (any) students?" would be «Чи є (якісь) студенти?», this question won't have «вони».

[SonACarl]

thank you for the reply, I understand now. I just misunderstood how the question was supposed to be set up in ukrainian

[ZsanVizur]

They are students?

[housing4552]

Am I hear wrong? I heard there is a (is) sound between вони and студенти, then I follow what I heard to say.
another question is the pronounce of в, it sometimes hear like v, and sometimes like b, sometimes is it the sound between b and v.

[K.T.B.]

I think the word you're mistaking for "is" is just the second half of вони. It's a two-syllable word.