LingoflyMoney: hroshi, vystachaie, platyty za
Money exists only in the plural: velyki hroshi big money, bez hroshei, za hroshi. There is no singular, and the verb always agrees: hroshi zakinchylysia, the money ran out. For example: “На (na) все (vse) грошей (hroshei) не (ne) вистачає” (vystachaie) — There is not enough money for everything. A rule from the Ukrainian course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
Money exists only in the plural: velyki hroshi big money, bez hroshei, za hroshi. There is no singular, and the verb always agrees: hroshi zakinchylysia, the money ran out.
Enough and not enough are said impersonally, with vystachaie plus the of form: vystachaie hroshei, ne vystachaie chasu, ne vystachaie ruk. Nobody is the subject; the person is added in the to form: meni ne vystachaie.
You pay za shcho — for the thing: platyty za kvartyru, platyty za proizd. What you pay with is a bare instrumental, no preposition: platyty kartkoiu, platyty hotivkoiu. The English for and with map one to one here.
Three prefixes on one root, worth sorting out at once. Platyty pay in general, splatyty pay a bill off completely, zaplatyty pay someone for something.
Table
| phrase | the tag it takes | example |
|---|---|---|
| vystachaie | the of form | vystachaie hroshei |
| platyty za | object form | platyty za vodu |
| pay with | the bare -om form | platyty hotivkoiu |
| koshtuvaty | object form | koshtuie sto hryven |
By example
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
How to talk about money in Ukrainian: hroshi?
Money exists only in the plural: velyki hroshi big money, bez hroshei, za hroshi. There is no singular, and the verb always agrees: hroshi zakinchylysia, the money ran out.
What does it look like in a Ukrainian example sentence?
“На (na) все (vse) грошей (hroshei) не (ne) вистачає” (vystachaie) (Na vse hroshei ne vystachaie) — There is not enough money for everything. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.