Dictionaries

Bilingual

Among the best bilingual Ukrainian-English and English-Ukrainian dictionaries are the following:

• Comprehensive Ukrainian-English Dictionary (Velykyi ukrains'ko-anhliis'kyi slovnyk), compiled by Ye. Popov and M. Balla. "Chumatskiy Shliakh" Publishing House, Kyiv, 2001. ISBN 966-95747-6-5. Contains over 150,000 words and phrases.
• English-Ukrainian Dictionary (Anhlo-ukrains'kyi slovnyk), compiled by M. Balla. Two volumes. "Osvita" Publishing House, Kyiv, 1996. ISBN 5-330-03081-1. Contains about 120,000 words.
• Ukrainian-English Dictionary (Ukrains'ko-anhliis'kyi slovnyk) compiled by C. H. Andrusyshen and J. N. Krett. University of Toronto Press, Toronto,1981. Contains about 100,000 word entries, 35,000 idiomatic expressions and a summary of Ukrainian grammar. Despite its original publication date of 1955, this is still one of the best Ukrainian-English dictionaries for those wishing to read literary Ukrainian.
• English-Ukrainian Ukrainian-English Dictionary (Anhliis'ko-ukraiins'kyi ukraiins'ko-anhliis'kyi slovnyk), compiled by V. Busel. "Perun" Publishing House, Kyiv-Irpin, 1997. ISBN 966-569-150-3. Contains about 40,000 words and phrases.

Online bilingual dictionaries:

• Slovnenya
• Cybermova
• Slovnyk

Monolingual

Among the best monolingual dictionaries of contemporary Ukrainian is:

• Velykyi tlumachnyi slovnyk suchasnoi ukrains'koi movy (Greater dictionary of current Ukrainian), editor-in-chief V. Busel. "Perun" Publishing House, Kyiv-Irpin, 2005. ISBN 966-569-013-2. Contains about 250,000 words.

Dictionaries of Ukraine Online is an online database containing details of how the endings of individual Ukrainian words change depending on their use in a sentence. The database also contains synonyms and antonyms of selected words, as well as the meanings of set phrases containing the words, together with examples of usage. (Developed by the Ukrainian Linguistic Information Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences of Ukraine.)