Iran has accused Kyiv of supporting US and Israeli attacks, while Kyiv says nearly 60,000 Iranian drones have struck its territory and “not a single Ukrainian drone has ever hit Iran.”
To add another layer of absurdity to this linguistic debate, both of the native languages (Ukrainian/Russian) entirely lack definite articles such as “the”. Russian/Ukrainian doesn’t even have a word for “the”.
For example, when translating “A cat is on the table” to either Russian or Ukrainian (the two languages are pretty similar), you’d end up with what would translate back most literally as “Cat is on table.”
Including it or not only becomes an issue when translated into other languages.
To add another layer of absurdity to this linguistic debate, both of the native languages (Ukrainian/Russian) entirely lack definite articles such as “the”. Russian/Ukrainian doesn’t even have a word for “the”.
For example, when translating “A cat is on the table” to either Russian or Ukrainian (the two languages are pretty similar), you’d end up with what would translate back most literally as “Cat is on table.”
Including it or not only becomes an issue when translated into other languages.