"Ви шукаєте пошту?"

Translation: Are you looking for the post office?

[Zonia435615]

Why wouldn't you say, "Чи Ви шукаєте пошту?" ???

[deactivated user]

In literary Ukrainian, when you use чи, you normally move the main verb to the beginning of the sentence: Чи шукаєте ви пошту?

Чи Ви шукаєте пошту could be understood 'Is it you who are looking for the post office?'

[sagitta145]

You don't have to move the verb, but yes, it's more natural/common to do so. Either version is accepted now.

[sagitta145]

Accepted now

[ScottWilli909480]

Why is it Пошту and not пошті?

[sagitta145]

Пошту is Accusative, пошті is Locative.

(На) пошті is used when asking "Where at?" (Я на пошті). Пошту is used when it's a direct object (Я шукаю пошту, "пошта" is a direct object of "шукаю") or when asking "Where to?" (Я йду на пошту).

[mezczyzna]

Я написав do you look for the post office? І це неправда?? Що???

[Jonathan290737]

ні це не натурально звучить
так само як сказати- Ви шукаєте почту кожен день

[sagitta145]

Yeah... It's not a common sentence to say. Nevertheless, it's grammatically correct and can be meaningful given a context. E.g. "How do you send a letter? - You drop it into a mailbox. - And how do you find a mailbox? Do you look for a post office? Or are there mailboxes in other places?"

So, now it's accepted.

[Jonathan290737]

Why not -почту

[sagitta145]

Because that's not a word in Ukrainian.