In transcription

Meaning

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pause in speech

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unintelligible fragment

a foreign language fragment longer than a sentence

сказа-

broken word - put one hyphen at the end

е-е, мм, ну, ну-у, а-а, о-о, угу

typical pause fillers

з-здається, бага-а-то, дале-е-ко, або-о-о, мене-е-е

an elongated sound inside or at the end of a word

гм, гм-м, ай-яй-яй, альо, апхчи, ау, бр-р, бу-бу-бу, вау, хе-хе-хе

exclamations (including repetitive ones)

вєлік, якшо, всьо, тіпа, камон, нічо, нє-а, ну да ладно

non-standard pronunciation or surzhyk - we transmit it as it sounds. If a Russian or other foreign word is pronounced in the Ukrainian way (for example, мій вєлік, всі пеньонзи) - we write it in Ukrainian. 

який

standard recording of the Ukrainian word regardless of minor peculiarities of individual pronunciation ([йakий] or [йakи^ій]).

обезопасить, oh yes, good job, coś takiego, Gebühr

If the word is pronounced in Russian or another foreign language in a foreign way, we write it down in that language.

<expletive>

obscenity

🙂

🤝

🙁

laughter (when it is heard)

 agreement (the speaker nods his/her head or otherwise expresses his/her agreement without saying anything)

disagreement (the speaker shakes his head in the negative or otherwise expresses his disagreement and says nothing)

🙃

false start - the speaker said a word or several words, but decided to cut off the phrase and start another one from this place. Another option: repeating the first word of the phrase (for example, ці 🙃 ці люди…)