User:Peter Chastain/Ukrainian text ideas/Time — час

(This is a very rough chapter outline.)

Eras||ери
BCE/BC; CE/AD (наша ера)

Calendars
(Maybe merge with "Eras")

Years
How you say, e.g., 2022, next/last year; decades, centuries

Seasons
(As with, we can make a table showing etymology and a picture of the season.

Months
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
Next/last week; in two weeks; for two weeks; Easter Week

Days
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 " У + accusative

Holidays; yesterday/tomorrow; day-before-yesterday/after-tomorrow.

Time of day
Morning, evening, etc. Also що... adverbs (every...)

Time
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
Sometimes, always, rarely, etc.

When?

 * взимку, зимою
 * навесні, весною
 * влітку, літом
 * восені, осінню

How long?
два роки (for two years): Nominative or accusative?

Adages
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