Thread: Typical Ukrainian-influenced mistakes?

What types of mistakes, if any, would a speaker whose first language is Ukrainian make when speaking Russian?

I was looking at some of the notes in my annotated copy of Panova's novel "Спутники" where there is a dialogue in which a Ukrainian character speaks and mangles the language a bit. I'm curious if the mistakes he makes are accurate - that is, would any Ukrainian make these errors?

1) Use of нема in place of нет:

- Откуда ты?
- С хутора Петряева. Так его уже нема. (244)

2) Use of тикать in place of бегать/бежать:

- Мы тикали от немцев.

3) Use of хата for the meaning of "peasant house". What would the proper Russian equivalent be here? Изба?

- У них у самих хату спалили, живут в землянке.

4) Use of свитка in place of пальто:

- Вещей у Васьки было: узелок в сером клетчатом платке и огромная старая мужская свитка на плечах поверх платьишка да худые сапоги.

5. Чого с ними будут робить? -- What is to be done with them?

There are more examples further on in the text, but I'd like to see your opinions of what has already been noted.

Some of these words are not actual mistakes. They does add some Ukrainian (or rather peasant) flavour to his speech, but many of these words exist in Russian and are used by Russians in colloquial or dialect speech.

The only TYPICAL mistake, imho, is "с хутора" instead of "из хутора" (a very common mistake, in fact. Eg.: "Я с Киева", meaning "I'm from Kiev").

1) Use of нема in place of нет.
Yes, he used Ukrainian word.

2) Use of тикать in place of бегать/бежать.
"Тикать" exists in Russian with the same meaning. It's colloquial for "to run from a danger" (not just "to run").

ТИКАТЬ, –аю, –аешь; несов. (прост.). Убегать стремительно, спасаясь от чего–н.

3) Use of хата for the meaning of "peasant house".
The word "хата" exists in Russian. It denotes a peasant house of a specific construction, which was commonly used at the South of Russia, also in Ukraine and Belorussia.

ХАТА, –ы, ж. На Украине, в Белоруссии, на юге России: крестьянский дом.

4) Use of свитка in place of пальто.
I'm not sure about this one. This word exists in Russian, but it's archaic, as well as in Ukrainian.
"Свитка" means a long coat-like thingy, something like caftan. It's not exactly a coat (пальто) - in this case the guy says, that he wears both "свитка" and "пальто" ("пальтишко" is small or poor "пальто", the diminutive suffix -ишк is added ).

5. Чого с ними будут робить? -- What is to be done with them?
Russian-Ukrainian mix. Ukrainian words mixed with Russian grammar (a real Ukrainian would say "робити").

So I think it hardly can be seen as "mistakes" since this guy isn't actually trying to speak Russian. He speaks the way he used to. In fact it resembles a Russian-Ukrainian mix, known as "суржик" which is used in some parts of Ukraine.

*The quotes are from the "Ozegov's Dictionary of the Russian language"

http://video.i.ua/user/377723/241/28002/

The only TYPICAL mistake, imho, is "с хутора" instead of "из хутора" (a very common mistake, in fact. Eg.: "Я с Киева", meaning "I'm from Kiev").

IT's not a mistake. правильно: "с хутора, на хутор" "с фермы, на ферму", "с завода, на завод".

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