Comment by octavian0914 on 02/02/2025 at 09:53 UTC*

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View submission: Pictures of things with labels to learn vocabulary from?

Great idea! Note that:

чарівний - magical or enchanting (not a noun)

цукерки (not цукерни)

Чорнослив is specifically a smoked prune, like the one in the candy

The word волоський is, in fact, an adjective derived from a proper noun. It's unclear what exactly the noun was. It might have been a place name or an ethnic group name. Right now the word is used in conjunction with "горіх (nut)" to mean "walnut". You are obliged to use both words together, "волоський горіх", to say walnut, as otherwise "волоський" would be just an adjective meaning "coming from Voloh/Volos".

And yes, that's a cursive "г":)

P.S. "Горіховий" basically means "made of/with nut", which can refer to any nuts or specifically the wood of walnut tree. So it can be "горіхові цукерки" and "горіховий стіл".

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Comment by diligentfalconry71 at 02/02/2025 at 10:03 UTC

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Thank you so much! This is super helpful :)

Comment by Shwabb1 at 02/02/2025 at 13:50 UTC*

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Волоський means Wallachian (from Wallachia, a region in southern Romania). So walnut in Ukrainian is Wallachian nut.