Belarusian Grammar

The Belarusian grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Belarusian and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: і; ды  [і; di]	Under: пад  [pad]
Before: раней  [ranyey]	After: пасля  [paslya]
Inside: унутры  [oonootri]	Outside: знадворку  [znadvorkoo]
With: з  [z]	But: але  [alye]
For: на працягу  [na pratzyaguoo]	From: ад  [ad]
To: у  [oo]	In: у  [oo]

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: што?  [shto?]	Who?: хто?  [khto?]
How?: якім чынам?  [yakіm chinam?]	Why?: чаму?  [chamoo?]
Where?: дзе?  [dzye?]

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: ніколі  [nіkolі]	Rarely: рэдка  [redka]
Sometimes: часам  [chasam]	Usually: звычайна  [zvichayna]
Always: заўсёды  [zawsyodi]	Very: вельмі  [vyelʲmі]

Most commonly used pronouns in Belarusian:

I: я  [ya]	You: ты/вы/вы  [ti/vi/vi]
He: ён  [yon]	She: яна  [yana]
We: мы  [mi]	They: яны  [yani]

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: мой/мая/маё; мае  [moy/maya/mayo; maye]	Your: твой/твая/тваё/твае  [tvoy/tvaya/tvayo/tvaye]
His: яго/ягоны  [yaguo/yaguoni]	Her: яе; ёй  [yaye; yoy]
Our: наш/нашая/нашае  [nash/nashaya/nashaye]	Their: іх/іхні  [іkh/іkhnі]

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: я размаўляю  [ya razmawlyayo]

You speak French: вы(ты) размаўляеце (размаўляеш) па-французску  [vi(ti) razmawlyayetzye (razmawlyayesh) pa-frantzoozskoo]

He speaks German: ён гаворыць па-нямецку  [yon guavoritzʲ pa-nyamyetzkoo]

She speaks Italian: яна размаўляе па-італьянску  [yana razmawlyaye pa-іtalʲyanskoo]

I visited France: я наведаў францыю  [ya navyedaw frantziyo]

I will drink milk: я буду піць малако  [ya boodoo pіtzʲ malako]

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: я вас разумею  [ya vas razoomyeyo]

I don't understand you: я вас не разумею  [ya vas nye razoomyeyo]

I don't speak French: я не размаўляю па-французску  [ya nye razmawlyayo pa-frantzoozskoo]

This is my house: гэта мой дом  [gueta moy dom]

That restaurant is far: гэты рэстаран далёка  [gueti restaran dalyoka]

No problem: няма праблем  [nyama prablyem]

The above Belarusian grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Belarusian vocabulary to obtain some popular Belarusian phrases.