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Interesting... At my home we say it as "п’єте́"... Are we wrong or is it OK too?
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....
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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.
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Well, I don't know how to pronounce ви here. Sounds different, I mean В=W and и=is EE but not like і.
I typed "do you people drink juice" as ви means you(plural) and it didn't accept..
"You people" sounds slangy to me. There is no such connotation in the Ukrainian sentence.
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"You people" is not the formal way of addressing a group in any major English dialect.
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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)...
