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Dorohoiu tsinoiu: read in Ukrainian (B2)

Read Kotsiubynsky’s novella Dorohoiu tsinoiu in Ukrainian. Level B2: runaway serfs, the Danube marshes and lively dialogue, with instant word translation.

Дорогою ціною (Михайло Коцюбинський)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Narrative past tense, verbs of motion and hiding, vocabulary of village life, serfdom and the Danube marshes (комиш, плавні), older forms such as од for від, Ukrainian prose of the early 20th century

This article contains the full text of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s novella Dorohoiu tsinoiu (1902) about Ostap, a serf, and Solomiia, a young married woman, who flee their master for the Danube in the 1830s. Level B2 suits readers who can follow long descriptions and lively dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of village life, serfdom and the Danube marshes, and older forms such as од for від.

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