U01 · complete intake · 32 words · 8 patterns
The entire U01 vocabulary and grammar set, in one place, with audio on every
item. Each row is tagged with what actually happened today — so the sixteen you
lost are findable in one tap, not hidden inside a list of thirty-two.
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Romanian splits the day more finely than English and picks the greeting by the clock, not by formality. Three of these six went missing today.
The safe default from late morning to evening. Formal-neutral — use it with strangers, shops, officials.
Until about 11:00. You wrote dimeneața — the vowel is i: di-mi-nea-ța.
From about 18:00. Resembles — Latin sera.
The only greeting that flips the word order — bună comes second. And it is for parting to sleep, never for arriving. Not Spanish noche: Romanian kept the diphthong, noapte.
Informal, works arriving and leaving. Fine with friends — not in the exam's formal role-plays.
Neutral-formal, literally "until the re-seeing" — UA «до побачення» ("until the seeing") is the exact structural match. This is the goodbye the examiner expects, not salut.
You lost all five of these today. They are also the five highest-frequency things you will say out loud in the Speaking section, so they get drilled first.
From a mulțumi, which takes the dative — like UA дякувати комусь. Keep it apart from mă numesc: similar shape, unrelated word.
Literally "with pleasure" — maps directly to EN pleasure. The standard reply to mulțumesc.
Literally "I ask you". Informal is te rog. This is also how you soften any request: mai rar, vă rog.
For getting attention, squeezing past — and the normal light apology when you bump someone (scuzați-mă, same meaning, works too). The mă here is a plain object pronoun — "excuse me"; the -ся analogy belongs to mă numesc only.
Literally "it seems bad to me" — regret: bad news, sympathy, and the serious apology. For the light bump, mă scuzați / scuzați-mă is the normal move.
The repair kit. In the Speaking section these are worth more than vocabulary: they buy you time without breaking the conversation.
Informal: Ce mai faci? The expected answer is Bine, mulțumesc.
The question. You answered with mă numesc, which is the reply — worth separating: numiți asks, numesc answers.
This buys tempo. You translated it as "again" — that is a different move: încă o dată, vă rog. Also usable: mai încet.
Inside it is semn = sign — maps directly to EN signify. Ce înseamnă „obraz"?
Stored as infinitives — the a-form. That is the form to learn for every new verb, because the I-form cannot be derived backwards from it (this is what item 26 caught this morning).
Vorbesc puțin românește — I speak a little Romanian. a vorbi, not a vorbesc.
Both directions in one verb, like UA вчити. You blended it with a înțelege today — they are neighbours, not relatives.
Survival phrase №1. Matches — same Latin root as EN intellect.
UA любити — a close Slavic cognate that still failed to fire in the placement probe, where you read it as iulie, "July". Slavic hooks only work once named.
RU да — the one place Russian is the direct helper. UA так gives you nothing here.
Also the verb negator, placed before the verb: nu sunt student. Before a vowel it contracts: nu am → n-am.
Resembles — the Romance layer: EN benefit. The default answer to Ce mai faceți?
Fără zahăr — without sugar. Watch out: UA фара suggests "headlight" — that word is far, a different one.
Trap: UA час looks like ceas — but ceas is a clock. Time = timp, hour = oră.
Both senses, exactly like UA мова/язик splits — limba română. This word is what this whole workspace is named after.
Matches — UA екзамен. The thing this is all for.
Slavic cognate — UA приятель. Instant once named.
Every one of these is a word your own languages will confidently mistranslate. In the placement probe you lost 3 of 3 attempted; trup held this morning and carte has now been missed three times. Documenting a false friend does not inoculate against it — only drilling does.
UA карта says "map". It is not. Map = hartă. Missed three times now — this is the single most drilled word you own.
UA/RU труп says "corpse". It does not. Corpse = cadavru; the neutral word for body is also corp. You got this one right today — it was wrong in the placement probe.
UA/RU образ says "image". It means cheek.
EN library says "library". It means bookshop. Library = bibliotecă — and here Ukrainian бібліотека rescues you.
UA простий says "simple". It means stupid — an expensive mistake to make out loud. Simple = simplu.
Grammar is reviewed by producing a sentence, never by reciting the rule. Each card ends with one prompt — say it out loud before you tap.
sunt · ești · este · suntem · sunteți · sunt — eu sunt and ei/ele sunt are the same form.
Ukrainian deletes this verb («Я студент»). Romanian never does.
Say: We are students.
a is a separate word in front, exactly EN "to" — a fi, a vorbi, a învăța. It is not a + the I-form.
Ukrainian glues -ти on the end; Romanian puts its marker in front. The marker disappears the moment you conjugate: a vorbi → vorbesc.
Give the infinitive of înțeleg (I understand) and iubesc (I love).
nu stands immediately before the verb — never before the noun.
UA «не» maps directly. The one addition: before a vowel it contracts — nu am → n-am.
Say: She is not a teacher.
No auxiliary, no word-order change. A statement, said with a rising tone.
Ukrainian works the same way — trust it. English is the interference here, wanting a "do" that Romanian has no room for. Today's miss was different, though: you used este where formal address needs sunteți.
Ask one person, formally: Are you Romanian?
eu · tu · el · ea · noi · voi · ei · ele — normally omitted, kept only for contrast.
Two things English does not have: ei for men or a mixed group, ele for women only — and no word for "it". Today you gave el where a women-only group needs ele.
Two women are engineers. Say it.
One sound, two letters. î at the word's edges, â inside.
The sound is RU ы. Getting the letter wrong is graded as a diacritics error, not a typo — it is a spelling rule with almost no exceptions.
î or â? — a hotăr_ (to decide) · c_ine (dog) · _ntreb (I ask)
Cum vă numiți? asks · Mă numesc… answers.
Romanian mă / te / se does the work of UA -ся: mă numesc ≈ називаюся. A true transfer asset — with the particle in front instead of glued behind. Learn it as a chunk; the system behind it is U06.
Ask informally, then answer.
băiat → băiatul · casă → casa — "the" is glued to the end of the noun.
This sits in the ledger ahead of schedule so you recognise it in the wild. It is the single highest-frequency error source in Romanian for a Ukrainian speaker — no articles exist in UA or RU at all. Taught properly in U05; ignore it until then.
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