"У мене є один дім та один кіт."

Translation: I have one house and one cat.

[uq.]

You can never have enough cats.

[alex_tv80]

Sometimes you may not be sure how many cats you really have

[Dirtygutta]

What's the difference between і and та?

[sagitta145]

No difference whatsoever, in Ukrainian there are several words for "and" purely for the purpose of sounding melodic.

Actually, we also have "й", yet another form of "and". We use these different forms so that the phrase rolls easily from your tongue, with no vowels or consonants clashing.

Examples:

consonant-consonant: брат і сестра (brother and sister)

vowel-vowel: Олена й Олександр (two names)

vowel-consonant: : мама та тато (mother and father)

[Dirtygutta]

Thank you for the explanation! I love this quality of the Ukrainian language - more languages should follow their example :)

[sagitta145]

Haha, well, you know, sometimes when we speak we ignore this :) For instance, "мама і тато" is definitely more common colloquially (but that's because та тато in a row sounds a bit funny) , Олена і Олександр is possible, people say that, although I wouldn't normally do that, sounds like chewing butter, "а-і-о" one after the other.

But some, of course, you would omit naturally, if, let's say, the word itself ends with "i": коні і коти (horses and cars) sounds retarded to me --> коні та коти

And for poetry its very important, makes everything pretty ~

[EliGiard]

Hi! That answered my question before I even asked! But what is the difference in pronunciation between "і" and "й"?

[Vinnfred]

"і" is a vowel, while "й" is a consonant, so they are really different. й is something like "y" in "hey". "і" - ee

[WordFitlySpoken]

As I understand it, there's not really a difference, except sometimes it "sounds better" to say та rather than і in a particular sentence.

[Viktoria_Chance]

Sometimes та means "but". Example : сонце світить, та не гріє. The sun is shining but it's not warming

[Warao1]

Can та also mean 'that'

[NiccolumEG]

Yes, but the femenine type of "that".

[lifesizedunicorn]

Please what's the difference between одие, один and одиа?

[vQV6]

We have different ending for different genders
Один is for man він один, один кіт
Одна is for woman вона одна, одна студентка
Одне is for neuter gender воно одне, одне дзеркало
Одні is for plural вони одні

[roger_bock]

Is "building" an acceptable translation of дім?

[MarinaLif]

building = будинок, дім = house, home.

[DylanThobu]

Does it matter what which form of a number I use when speaking?

[sagitta145]

What do you mean? If you mean the ending (один/одна/одне) then yes, because in this case один is not simply a number but something closer to an adjective or a posessive pronoun, at least as you see the endings behave absolutely in the same way.

один кіт <-> мій кіт

одна сестра <-> моя сестра

одне місто <-> моє місто

[Warao1]

Why is дім a masculine noun and not neuter

[Vinnfred]

Why it should be neuter? As a rule of thumb masculine nouns end in a consonant

[nunFalco]

I Didn't know this rule. :O