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Ukrainian

Ukrainian

106 2.3
Related to Ukraine and its people
  • adjective
  • /juˈkreɪniən/
: ucraniano
  • So much of what I saw in the Ukrainian countryside reminded me of Latin America.
  • Ukrainian citizens
  • Ukrainian forces
  • Ukrainian army

And that became part of the Ukrainian political DNA.

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Examples

  • If the Russians succeed, that doesn't simply destroy the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state.

  • We can still catch that Ukrainian film.

  • What is clear is that the new Ukrainian state failed.

  • The call to the Ukrainian president was perfect.

  • We served together on the Ukrainian front.

  • Please make sure that our Ukrainian skies are safe.

  • Speaker, our objective remains to ensure a Ukrainian victory in this conflict.

  • We would like to encourage Ukrainian politicians to be defiant of Russia.

  • Grandfather was delighted and praised her: "Eh, whatever you say, Ukrainian cuisine is the best in the world."

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The choir will sing sacred music and contemporary songs in Ukrainian, Russian, and English.

Compounds

A language spoken in Ukraine and by its people around the world

Surface Forms

Ukrainian positive

Morphology

Ukrainian = Ukraine (transparent) = Ukraine + ian

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ian' to the country name 'Ukraine', producing a clear relational adjective.

Etymology

Ukrainian as an adjective comes from Ukraine plus the ending -ian, which means 'from' and is used in words like Canadian, and the country's name once meant 'borderland' or 'edge'. So Ukrainian describes something that is from or about Ukraine.