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I was thinking maybe phrasal verbs or choosing whether to say “do” or “is” when starting a question. Obviously since English is analytic, it will probably be more of structural thing than an individual word thing. Just it always seems magical the way Ukrainians know so clearly what they are going to say before they say it

In English you have to commit to saying “I am a top colorist” or “I am the top colorist.” It’s kind of wild to me that a claim like that could be left as ambiguous. With a colorist it doesn’t really matter but if people are talking about something with actual rankings like marathon runner then it seems like a weird thing to leave your audience wondering about. Though of course a language giving you the option of ambiguity is usually a feature instead of a bug so I’m not complaining.

Sweet cherries are much more common than tart cherries. If I say “let’s go buy some cherries” I’m going to be talking about sweet cherries or else I would say “let’s go buy some tart cherries.” It just seems weird that pretty much every translator and educational research gives the primary translation of cherries as вишні/вишня when there is a better word for it and it could end up confusing people when they want to go buy some cherries to eat and end up with a bunch of sour ones like that are only really good for baking with.