User:Peter Chastain/Ukrainian text ideas/Time — час
(This is a very rough chapter outline.)
Eras||ери
[edit | edit source]BCE/BC; CE/AD (наша ера)
Calendars
[edit | edit source](Maybe merge with "Eras")
Years
[edit | edit source]How you say, e.g., 2022, next/last year; decades, centuries
Seasons
[edit | edit source](As with #Months, we can make a table showing etymology and a picture of the season.
Months
[edit | edit source]Explain that most months are named after natural occurences or activities: the sickle used to harvest in August; the month when heather plants flower, the yellow (of turning leaves?), etc. Include a table: English month name, Uk month; related Uk/Slavic term; picture of the related term.
Next/last month, etc.
Weeks
[edit | edit source]Next/last week; in two weeks; for two weeks; Easter Week
Days
[edit | edit source]Some notes from Quora contributor Vlad Shapran:
Sat - subota, from hebrew Sun - nedilâ (literally, ‘no work’) Mon - ponedilok (‘after no work’) Tue - viwtorok (‘2nd’) Wed - sereda (‘middle’) Thu - četver (‘4th’) Fri - pjatnyćâ (‘5th’)
How to say a calendar day (e.g., 17th of October)
Prepositions: "On <day>" У + accusative
Holidays; yesterday/tomorrow; day-before-yesterday/after-tomorrow.
Time of day
[edit | edit source]Morning, evening, etc. Also що... adverbs (every...)
Time
[edit | edit source]Hours, minutes, seconds. AM/PM, etc.
Compass directions and time: north=midnight; south=noon. Is this related to the hands on a 24 hour clock?
More adverbs
[edit | edit source]Sometimes, always, rarely, etc.
When?
[edit | edit source]How long?
[edit | edit source]два роки (for two years): Nominative or accusative?
Adages
[edit | edit source]час не чекає (?)