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father and dad are both acceptable in english - many children speak of their male parent and speak to him using father rather than dad or daddy
Both are accepted now, but it's preferred if you use "dad" since father would be батько
Eastern Slavic languages tend to not use the verb in general, and it is implied with any pronoun or noun. Western ones, such as Polish and Czech, are the opposite: the do use 'to be', and can omit the pronoun, and the pronoun becomes implied based on the conjugation of the verb. Usually, every pronoun has its own conjugation for every verb in Western Slavic languages, which is definitely the case in Czech, which also has 5 verb classes (meaning 5 different ways to conjugate for every pronoun).
I'm sorry that there's no audio. For the courses that don't have text-to-speech, Duolingo hires a third party and records a limited amount of sentences. After that, if new sentences are added, there is no way for us to add any audio...
I'm researching now on if it's possible to use some existing Ukrainian TTS to implement it. Not sure how long it would take to get a response from Duo :)
In the meantime, for audio you can use forvo.com or Google Translate, the Ukrainian one does have TTS (not a very good one, but still something).
Um can someone help me because i have to learn this because i have a test on this Wednesday
If you need help in general, it is better to write to the general Ukrainian discussion and not in the sentence discussion. Sentence discussions are only for discussing the respective sentences.
"Де" is "where" and "is" is implied in Ukrainian, so "де ..." translates to "where is ...."
Where is the sound? how do I know the pronounciation with out the relevant clip
I'm sorry that there's no audio. For the courses that don't have text-to-speech, Duolingo hires a third party and records a limited amount of sentences. After that, if new sentences are added, there is no way for us to add any audio...
I've already asked if it's possible to use some existing Ukrainian TTS to implement it. It seems that in order to do that one has to make a post on the contributor's Forum pitching such a suggestion. And it's not clear how long it would take to get a response from Duo :) I haven't pitched it yet. And currently the course has like 5 contributors and 1 moderator so it's unclear if we could somehow speed it up or if someone more familiar than me could take over it.
In the meantime, for audio you can use forvo.com or Google Translate, the Ukrainian one does have TTS (not a very good one, but still something).
