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Tips

If your browser does not select encoding automatically, choose Cyrillic(Windows) or windows-1251 charset manually.
If you use Netscape Navigator, then in menu choose Options, open it. Then find Document Encoding and choose there Cyrillic (Windows 1251).
For Internet Explorer 5, click right mouse button and, in section Encoding, choose Cyrillic (Windows).

If your system does not support Ukrainian at all, activate appropriate components when installing or updating your browser. For Internet Explorer 5, during instalation/updating in custom component options select Language Auto-Selection and Pan-European Text Display Support in the Multi-Language Support section.

For both Ukrainian and English input it is not necessary to type a normalized form of words. The dictionary will try to locate the appropriate entry(ies) automatically for most words. This also means that a Ukrainian word might be typed incomplete. But the true is the more exact characters you type the more matching word will be found.

To type Ukrainian letters in Windows, use the Ukrainian keyboard layout:

Apostroph is not necessary to be typed for Ukrainian input. The word will be found anyway. If you really need it, switch to English keyboard layout and borrow apostroph from there.

To install the Ukrainian keyboard like above in Windows firstly check if it is available and than add it to your set of active keyboard layouts.

To configure your system and install Ukrainian keyboard layout (Windows XP):

• Open Start/Control Panel/Regional and Language Options, click the tab Languages. The Text Services and Input Languages dialog opens.
• Click Add and in the dialog Add Input Language choose Ukrainian from drop-down box. Leave other options unchecked. Click OK. A new item among Installed services should appear: Ukrainian/Keyboard/Ukrainian.
• Click Key Settings to select a shortcut that makes faster switching between keyboard layouts. (I prefere a combination of Ctrl + Shift).
• When finished, press OK (or Apply) in Text Services and Input Languages dialog. You will then see an icon at the right side of your taskbar with two letters indicating the active keyboard (En - English, Uk - Ukrainian etc.)
• To switch between keyboard layouts click left mouse button on the icon and choose your language or press the shortcut key combination

You should ensure the necessary codepage conversion tables are installed. Make sure in the dialog Start/Control Panel/Regional and Language Options/Advanced tab the following items in the Codepage conversion tables list are checked: 10007 (MAC - Cyrillic), 10017 (MAC - Ukraine), 1251 (ANSI - Cyrillic), 21866 (Ukrainian - KOI8-U), 28595 (ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic), 855 (OEM - Cyrillic).
It is also recommended to select in the above dropdown box the Ukrainian option. This will allow for non-Unicode applications to display Ukrainian letters correctly.

Comments

Synonimical translations are separated with comma and rather far meanings are separated with semicolomn. If a word cannot be translated, its explanation is given in parentheses.
Sometimes same English word means different parts of speech. In Ukrainian translation you may easy distinguish a doubtful part of speech by endings.

Verb's infinitives endings are: -ти(ся). The particular word is мати (may be translated in isolated position like mother or to have).

Adjectives normally has endings -ий, rarely -ій . It means masculine gender nominative case. Sometimes you really need female gender. Especially, if you want to say to your girlfriend darling. Than throw a masculine ending and add instead the female one -a. For example, in dictionary word beatiful is translated гарний, красивий. So a beautiful girl is translated as гарна дівчина. You see how easy it is!
From adjectives you can easily compose adverbs. Like in English, where you add ending -ly, in Ukrainian such ending is -o. Examples: гарний - гарно, веселий - весело. Exception: добрий - добре .

Pronounciation of Ukrainian words is easy. In Ukrainian what you see is what you say (WYSIWYS) :). To achieve it perfectly a stress is provided for Ukrainian words in all dictionaries. So, a stressed vowel, which is italized, should be a little bit emphasized while pronouncing. If two wovels are italized, it does not matter which one you stress.