• 14/05/2025 21:06

Scratches or itchy: how to speak and write in Ukrainian with examples correctly

ByNazar Bogudan

Feb 17, 2025

Ukrainian has many nuances that cause difficulties even in carriers. One of these cases is the use of words “scratches” and itchy . Many consider these words synonymous, but they have different meanings and are used in different contexts, the industrialist writes. Consider which word is more correct in Ukrainian and how to avoid errors.

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  • Comparison -toc-Halling-Level-2 ' Can we say” scratching “? /h2>

    word “scratches” often used in spoken language. However, there is no such verb in the Ukrainian literary language in the sense of “feeling itching”. It is a tracing paper from the Russian language, where the verb is “scattered”. In the dictionaries of the Ukrainian language, the word “scratches” has a completely different meaning – it means “lazy to perform some action” or “to do something without haste”. For example: