"Вісім років"

Translation: Eight years

[kabisaklaku3]

Why is the noun genitive here?

[sagitta145]

• 1 + singular Nominative (один рік)
• 2,3,4 + plural Nominative (два, три, чотири роки)
• >5 + plural Genetive (п’ять років)

Somehow >5 is so big it becomes "five of years" x) Sorry, I don't have any excuses or explanations, just a weird pattern we follow when we think/talk/write...

[kabisaklaku3]

Ukrainian freaks! Easy to understand, though. Thanks for the answer!

[DuoSmeagol]

Reminds me of learning french numbers for the first time, why say 4-20-10-9 when all the other romance languages (including english) say 9-10-9 for "99".

[Warao1]

Дякую!

[sagitta145]

Нема за що :)