"Їм треба бути у Києві завтра."
Translation:They need to be in Kyiv tomorrow.
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You may downvote my answer as much as you wish, but my city is called Kyiv. Kiev is the name given by Moscow occupants.
No disrespect is intended, but the problem for native English speakers is that Ukrainian transcription doesn't match English pronunciation. Transliterated from Russian it would be "Kiyev"
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English pronounciation is strongly influenced by the word spelling. Just admit the fact, that Kyiv is the right way to spell it, and read it as you see it; perhaps, you would prefer saying kee-iv - it would be alright.
The English world has accepted Beijing, Chennai, Mumbai, Tallinn - so what is the problem to take Kyiv as the fact? Moreover, people out there don't really care about the ethymology or whatever.
Sorry, the decision of the administrators of this course was political. They decided to accept only Kyiv.
My own opinion is different, I would accept "Kiev" because it's a historical name that many foreign languages use. In Ukrainian there are plenty of Ukrainian names for Polish cities, we use them instead of the proper Polish ones with accurate pronunciation. And nobody is making a fuss about that... Also, it's easier for foreigners to pronounce.
However, I totally understand the other side. Some people are very sensitive to these kind of things. They think the spelling of one word will influence how the country is perceived.
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And the latter ones are right. The city is called Kyiv, it doesn't matter who feels it hard to pronounce. Moreover, it is hard to remain apolitical when your country is in war, engaged by the evil neighbour, thus I don't want world to use the name, provided by that neighbour. The city of Kyiv is founded by Kyi, and the name Kiev arose just because russians can't say Ky, as they don't use such syllable.
"Kyiv" is the name in Ukrainian. I realize that it's politically sensitive and I think partly the misunderstanding stems from Ukrainians being taught to transliterate proper nouns into English, but in general native English speakers don't know or use Ukrainian transliteration rules.
Be proud that Київ is famous enough to have it's own pronunciation and spelling in English.
Not only don't we spell Київ "correctly", we don't pronounce it "correctly" either, but we do write it the say we say it. Brits say /ˈkiːɛv/ and Americans say /ˈkiˌɛf/ or /ˈkiˌɛv/. We write this as Kiev.
You may consider it an error, but we do this with place names from many countries and languages. For us it's not about the origin, it's about the sound in English. "Kyiv" is the Ukrainian name transliterated into English.
It's extremely frustrating for native English speakers to learn these transliterations and really doesn't help us to learn Ukrainian.
Євромайдан is Euromaidan not Euromaydan.
Leceister is Лестер. English pronunciation /ˈlɛstər/.
Consider Одеса. "Odesa" with one "s" would have the sound /z/. "Odessa" with "ss" has the sound /s/. The sound in Ukrainian is /s/.
Also, we write Moscow, not Moskva. We don't transliterate with Russian rules either.
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Ok, but why do I need to write Денвер instead of Denver and Атланту instead of Atlanta? I get that the spelling of Kyiv is what the Ukrainians think it should be called, but to then spell and pronounce the names of cities other than how the residents of the those cities and countries would like is a bit double standards.
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The city's name is Kyiv. The official name according to UN, for example (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/geonames). So what's the hype about?
No. "Is" word can be unused only if "is" is infinitive For example "This is book": "Це є книжка" "Це книжка" But if you want to say "This was book" the only correct way is: "Це була книжка" You may NOT use "це книжка" because it will be confused with previous sentence (This is book)
Please, fix it. In this sentence must be used "бути в Києві" because word "бутИ" ends with vowal, "Київ" doesn't start from "В/Ф/СВ/ЦВ/ДВ..." etc. so here must be "В" instead of "У"
Interchanging "у/в" is not a rule, but a stylistic advice, aimed at making the sentence melodic.
Using у "instead" of "в" does not make the sentence wrong. For example, if you write an essay in Ukrainian, the teacher will not take points from you for the usage of "і/й/та" and "у/в" unless the topic of the lesson was "чегрування у/в" and other melodic aspects.
This is important for areas like literature, news, speeches etc., but for daily life or non-language-focused topics, it's not a requirement.