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Read Nechuy-Levytsky’s novella Mykola Dzheria in Ukrainian. Level B2: a runaway serf, the Bessarabian fisheries and lively dialogue, with instant word translation.
Narrative past tense, present tense in descriptions, verbs of colour and motion, vocabulary of village life, serfdom and fishing (панщина, осавула, неводи), older forms such as од for від and short reflexive verbs (прокинувсь), Ukrainian prose of the 1870s
This article contains the full text of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky’s novella Mykola Dzheria (1878) about a serf from the village of Verbivka who runs away from his master and looks for freedom at sugar refineries and in the fishing gangs of Bessarabia. Level B2 suits readers who can follow long descriptions and lively dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of village life, serfdom, work and fishing, and older forms such as од for від and прокинувсь for прокинувся.
