Originally posted by: TseDanylo on Duolingo Archived here
Вітаю!
Ukrainian is an East Slavic language spoken primarily in Western and Central Ukraine by 40 million people making it the third most spoken Slavic language by number of native speakers in the world!
If there is any words you don't understand please refer to the glossary
Also, I recommend you check out this post on the Present Tense and this post on the Past Tense
About The Future Tense
In Ukrainian, there are two future tenses. The first one (which is the form taught in the Duolingo course) is very easy and the second one is pretty similar to the present tense in some ways.
First Form (Duo Form)
This form is really easy! Just use the future tense of "бути" (which is irregular) followed by the infinitive (the name of the verb). Here is читати in the future tense.
Читати
- Я буду читати
- Ти будеш читати
- Він/Вона/Воно буде читати
- Ми будемо читати
- Ви будете читати
- Вони будуть читати
See, easy right. No need to learn endless conjugations and you can use this is pretty much every situation!
Second Form
The second form is a bit more complicated; First, we get the infinitive and like the present tense each pronoun gets an ending.
- Я читатиму
- Ти читатимеш
- Він/Вона/Воно читатиме
- Ми читатимемо
- Ви читатимете
- Вони читати**муть