🇵🇱 → 🇺🇦

How easy is Ukrainian for Polish speakers?

Going from Polish to Ukrainian (Українська) has a composite linguistic distance of 46% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

46% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

40%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

89%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Sample sentences side-by-side

How everyday sentences look in both languages:

🇵🇱 Polish

Wiosna przynosi ciepło i deszcz do pól i lasów.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian

Весна приносить тепло і дощ до полів і лісів.

🇵🇱 Polish

Rodzina mieszka w małym domu przy rzece.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian

Родина живе у маленькому будинку біля річки.

Curated cognates between Polish and Ukrainian

Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:

water

woda ↔ вода (voda)
house

dom ↔ дім (dim)

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