1.2 Mary invites Viktoriia to visit

Now let’s take a closer look at this dialogue. It starts with informal greetings used by friends: Pryvit, Viktoriie! – O, Meri, pryvit! (‘Hello Viktoriia! – Oh, Mary, hello!’), Yak spravy? – ‘How are you?’. Viktoriia replies Dobre, diakuiu, a yak ty? (‘I am good, thank you, and how are you?’) Mary replies: Tezh nepohano. Yaki novyny? (‘Also not bad. Any news?’) Let’s repeat this question together: Chy ye novyny? _______________ Viktoriia happily replies: Meri, Danylo uzhe v shkoli! which means ’Mary, Danylo is already in the school!’

Mary replies: Tse chudovo! Harna novyna! (‘It’s wonderful! Good news!’) Novyna is singular of ‘news’, and novyny means ‘news’ in plural. Let’s repeat these words: novyna _____________, novyny _____________.

Viktoriia expresses their feelings too: Tak, my tezh duzhe radi! (‘Yes, we are also very happy‘). Radi is plural of the word radyi (’happy’).

At the end of the dialogue Mary invites Viktoriia and Danylo to her home. She says: Prykhodte v hosti! (which literally means ‘come in as guests’) Please repeat after me: ‘Prykhodte v hosti!’ ____________________ . Viktoriia replies: ‘Diakuiu!’ Now listen to the dialogue once again.