Kateryna: read in Ukrainian (A2)
Read Shevchenko’s Kateryna in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of the 1840 poem for level A2, in the past tense, with word translation.
Катерина (адаптація, Тарас Шевченко)
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What you'll learn
Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -лася), imperatives (іди, прости, візьміть), vocative forms (доню, Іване, Катрусю), instrumental after називати and стати (покриткою, наймичкою), locative plural (на волах), vocabulary of family, village life, the road and winter, old words москаль, покритка, чумаки, личаки, кобзар
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s narrative poem Kateryna (Катерина, 1840), retold in simple standard Ukrainian prose. Shevchenko is Ukraine’s national poet, and the poem first appeared in his Kobzar. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 10 words, past-tense narration and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for family, village life, the road and winter, a few old words explained in the text, and past-tense verb endings for he and she.
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