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When you start courting and dating a beautiful woman that may become your wife, you want to make the best impression you can. Your efforts can take different forms, depending on your wallet capacity and her preferences. Yet, if your bride is from another country, you can truly impress her if you learn a few words of her mother tongue, at least words like hello, goodbye, thank you, love you, darling, and wife. That’s the basic survival kit in your quest for marriage, so take care to prepare well.
And today our lesson will be how to say ‘wife’ in Ukrainian if you want to marry a woman from that wonderful but distant land. Ukrainian brides are legendarily beautiful and feminine, so you could not make a better decision. Yet now let’s get back to our class.
The literary word is druzhyna, and its pronunciation is not as scary as its look. You should pronounce it somewhere along these lines: droo-jee-nah (‘droo’ like in food). The stress falls on the second part of the word, the jee part. First, practice saying the word dragee a couple of times, and then you can transition to druzhyna, the sweet denomination of wife in Ukrainian.
This is the primary word you need to remember because it is an official title of a spouse in documents and governmental databases.
The name for a husband will be cholovik, but let’s leave it for some other time.
Another way to say ‘wife’ in Ukrainian will be to say zhynka (not much easier than the previous one). It sounds like jeen-ka, and it is also a general word for ‘woman’ in Ukrainian. Yes, zhynka is also an equivalent of the word ‘female,’ so when gender should be mentioned in the documents, this word is usually used.
Now the bonus word, and you’ll probably want to use it regularly when dating Ukrainian woman: kokhana (ko-hah-nah, the stress falls in the middle). It means the loved one, the sweetheart (in the female genus, as there is a male variant as well). When you learn to pronounce it confidently, it will sound like a warm breath, a whisper, or a gentle wind caressing the leaves. The Ukrainian language is very melodic and romantic, so many a word will sound pleasant and soft.
Now that you know how to say ‘wife’ and ‘loved one’ in Ukrainian, it’s time to find a person who you can call these sweet names. If you aim to find specifically Ukrainian women for marriage, you need to search in places or communities that unite women from this country looking for husbands.
One such tested way to find a wife is to search through Ukrainian dating sites and start conversing with ladies registered there. You and they have a common goal, they will be open to communication and getting to know each other, so all you have to do is to pick the one who matches your image of a perfect bride. And trust our word, it will be a hard choice: Ukrainian wives are all perfect, without caveats and exceptions.
So practice pronouncing the new words and start your sweet journey to marriage!
Kenneth O'Riley – a relationship coach and psychologist based in Montreal, Canada. Besides a huge experience of working with couples and singles, Kenneth can share knowledge about Slavic women and the peculiarities of dating ladies from Ukraine and Russia. Our author has Ukrainian origin and lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, for 10 years. Such experience allows us to call him a real expert in Slavic girls and share working tips with you.
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