If consonant letters are followed by vowel letters, the soft/hard quality of the consonant depends on whether the vowel is meant to follow "hard" consonants а, о, э, у, ы or "soft" consonants я, ё, е, ю, и . A soft sign Ь indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant without adding a vowel., у (transliteration needed) (lower case, upper case У) The twenty-seventh letter of the Alutor alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script., U (У у; italics: У у) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel /u/, somewhat like the pronunciation of oo in "boot" or rule., Предлог «у» состоит из одной этой буквы, так же как и междометие «у»: «У, как холодно!», «У, негодники!»., There is so small but very important rule in the usage of the prepositional case with nouns, when we add the letter "у" in their endings. Let's look at the examples and try to understand how it happens:, У, у — Буква всех славянских кириллических алфавитов; используется также в письменностях некоторых неславянских народов..