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The Forest Song: read in Ukrainian (B1)

Read The Forest Song in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of Lesya Ukrainka’s 1911 verse drama for level B1, with word translation.

Лісова пісня (адаптація, Леся Українка)

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Level B1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Past tense of perfective and imperfective verbs, nature and forest vocabulary (береза, верба, озеро, очерет, калина), imperatives and prohibitions (не руш, заграй), the vocative case (Мавко, Русалонько, сестрице), verbs of speech (відповіла, прошепотіла, засміявся), comparisons with як

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka’s verse drama The Forest Song (Лісова пісня, written 1911, published 1912), retold in simple modern Ukrainian prose. Level B1 suits learners who know the past tense: sentences of about 11 words, a third of the text in dialogue and the vocabulary of the forest, the lake and village work. You will meet the spirits of Ukrainian folklore, many nature words and some famous lines of the play.

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