Stresses are one of the most difficult topics for studying the Ukrainian language from scratch, and even for its experienced native speakers. This is because in our language there is no single system of arrangement of stresses, as in French (stress on the last syllable) or Czech (for the first).

And individual words can throw additional problems to the speaker. These words are nouns " How to stress it correctly, Igor Svatovsky, candidate of philological sciences, told a candidate of philological sciences in his blog on the BBC.

He noted that very often people emphasize the penultimate composition of these words. As a result, we hear the wrong options for chergo, leaf fall, right -handed.

But this is a mistake. Correctly stress in them on the last syllable:.

It is in this form that these three words record academic dictionaries, grammars and reference books. However, according to the linguist, such an emphasis is not normative for the Ukrainian language - it has developed historically.

However, you can't call such an option atypical such an option. In complex nouns, the part of the basis of which is taken from the verb (the front + Padati, the right + Chinity) often stress is placed precisely on the part that denotes the action. Compare: "