Why can't it be "Is Aunt there?"

My guess is that there are no articles or linking verbs in Ukrainian, same as Russian? Duolingo doesn't make it very clear, but that's the impression I'm getting.

I can't here them even thought my volume is 100 . I reported that and I don't why that's happen

Why the sound is Not working?!

The sound didn't work for this one, so I had to guess