Wiktionary:About Ukrainian

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Ukrainian is an Eastern Slavic language, the native language of Ukrainians and the official language of Ukraine, spoken by nearly 40 million people worldwide. It is represented by language codes uk (ISO 639-1) and ukr (ISO 639-2 and -3). It is written with the Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of the Cyrillic (ISO 15924 code Cyrl).

This page describes the treatment of Ukrainian terms in Wiktionary entries, for readers and editors.

Entries and links

Main entries should be created for the lemma of a word, its canonical form. Terms in lists of translations, related terms, etc. may link to the lemma. In Wiktionary the lemma is usually:

Nouns & proper nouns: nominative singular. Examples: горілка (horilka), Русь (Rusʹ).
Verbs: infinitive. Example: рити (ryty).
Adjectives: masculine singular. Example: канадійський (kanadijsʹkyj).

Supplementary entries may be created for variations of the term, usually simply linking to the lemma using a template such as {{inflection of}} or {{alternative spelling of}}. Examples: горілки (horilky), Русі (Rusi), рию (ryju), канадійська (kanadijsʹka).

Nouns and proper nouns

Ukrainian nouns have seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental, and locative.

Romanization

Ukrainian transliterations (that is, romanizations) are not words. Ukrainian entries are only permitted in the Cyrillic script.

Ukrainian terms are usually accompanied by a Roman-alphabet transliteration according to the international scholarly system, for example ба́чити (báčyty).

Details in Wiktionary:Ukrainian transliteration.

Bot-generated entries

The category Ukrainian definitions needed contains bot-generated entries for Ukrainian words which are missing definitions. Such entries typically already have inflection, pronunciation and reference sections, and occasionally require manual merging of part of speech sections which were originally treated as if belonging to different etymologies in the database that the entry was generated from.

Templates

See also: Appendix:Ukrainian bibliography

Regional context templates:

{{lb|uk|Lviv}}, puts an entry in category:Lviv Ukrainian
{{lb|uk|Western Ukraine}}, puts an entry in category:Western Ukrainian