"Ви п'єте сік?"

Translation: Do you drink juice?

[sagitta145]

Interesting... At my home we say it as "п’єте́"... Are we wrong or is it OK too?

[maje_16]

I think it is a matter of a dialect

[sagitta145]

Could be, or could be that this is wrong :)

We also used to say "во́дій" instead of "воді́й", because my mother is actually Russian (although her Ukrainian is better than what most of the Ukrainians I know speak...) and my father is Ukrainian but come on, they lived during the USSR....

[maje_16]

It could be wrong for standard language, but "во́дій" refers to some dialect, I guess.
I think that any Ukrainian native speaker will understand what you mean if you say "во́дій", and it would be better to understand that word in appropriate context.

[leyciipuccino]

Well, I don't know how to pronounce ви here. Sounds different, I mean В=W and и=is EE but not like і.

[Farheen186245]

I typed "do you people drink juice" as ви means you(plural) and it didn't accept..

[skstudio]

"You people" sounds slangy to me. There is no such connotation in the Ukrainian sentence.

[AaronKBrown]

"You people" is not the formal way of addressing a group in any major English dialect.

[Anna_Ptrica]

Is ви singular or plural?

[AJ72T]

It is plural.

ти = you (singular)

ви = you (plural)

Try comparing it to many other European languages, for example tu/vous (FR), tú/vosotros (ES)...