Natalka Poltavka: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read Kotliarevsky’s play Natalka Poltavka in Ukrainian. Level B2: village dialogue, folk songs and a pompous clerk’s comic jargon, with word translation.
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What you'll learn
Everyday village dialogue, the vocative case (Наталко, Петре, Миколо), vocabulary of matchmaking and marriage (сватання, старости, рушники, жених), folk songs in verse, older forms such as од for від and єсть for є, and the contrast between Ukrainian and the clerk’s Church Slavonic and Russian chancery words
This article contains the full text of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s play Natalka Poltavka (written 1819, printed 1838), a comic opera in two acts about a poor village girl near Poltava, the pompous court clerk who courts her and the sweetheart who vanished years ago. Level B2 suits readers who can follow lively dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of village matchmaking and folk songs, older forms such as од for від and єсть for є, and how the clerk parodies Church Slavonic and chancery Russian.
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