Ukraine is one of a few English country names traditionally used with the definite article the. This is apparently because the word "ukraina" means "borderland", and so would be translated as if "the borderlands" - the Ukraine - like how Nederlanden, meaning "nether lands", is translated as "the Netherlands".
@@thisshow5119 I encourage you to look it up. Perhaps your knowledge is a few decades old, like mine was. Saying “the Ukraine” is what the Soviet/USSR imposed- its Russia-centric - to be named “the borderlands”. Just like Kiev being spelled that way- the Latin version of the RUSSIAN Cyrillic… whereas Kyiv is how the sovereign nation wants it spelled, as it reflects the Ukrainian name. Not being facetious- I hope you look it up, where it can be explained better than I am doing it here.
@@thisshow5119 it’s likely a conscious choice in semantics. I’m perfectly aware of the reasoning with the “the”, and used it myself until corrected by a Ukrainian & looked it up.
@@thisshow5119 I looked it up & like I said it’s pretty fascinating. At the same time I didn’t retain it all so I can’t tell you how recently this changed. But I do regularly see anchors & pundits on air correcting themselves much of the time now when they say it the old way.
Also can you add a link to this message? The concert itself doesn’t have English subtitles, so I never saw what he said before this.. where did you find it with English subtitles please? 🙏
Hi, just a small thing- it’s not “the Ukraine”, it’s just Ukraine. Glad to see more people appreciating this message :)
Ukraine is one of a few English country names traditionally used with the definite article the. This is apparently because the word "ukraina" means "borderland", and so would be translated as if "the borderlands" - the Ukraine - like how Nederlanden, meaning "nether lands", is translated as "the Netherlands".
@@thisshow5119 I encourage you to look it up. Perhaps your knowledge is a few decades old, like mine was. Saying “the Ukraine” is what the Soviet/USSR imposed- its Russia-centric - to be named “the borderlands”. Just like Kiev being spelled that way- the Latin version of the RUSSIAN Cyrillic… whereas Kyiv is how the sovereign nation wants it spelled, as it reflects the Ukrainian name. Not being facetious- I hope you look it up, where it can be explained better than I am doing it here.
@@thisshow5119 it’s likely a conscious choice in semantics. I’m perfectly aware of the reasoning with the “the”, and used it myself until corrected by a Ukrainian & looked it up.
@@lolawants2008 If you were corrected by an Ukrainian then I stand corrected...thank you!
@@thisshow5119 I looked it up & like I said it’s pretty fascinating. At the same time I didn’t retain it all so I can’t tell you how recently this changed. But I do regularly see anchors & pundits on air correcting themselves much of the time now when they say it the old way.
Also can you add a link to this message? The concert itself doesn’t have English subtitles, so I never saw what he said before this.. where did you find it with English subtitles please? 🙏
Here it is ruclips.net/video/85TSkDfLeYY/видео.html
@@thisshow5119 thank you so much! 🙏