The Seagull Girl and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read Dniprova Chaika’s 28 prose poems and sea legends in Ukrainian. Level B2: the Black Sea, Crimea and songlike rhythmic prose, with instant word translation.
Дівчина-чайка та інші оповідання (Дніпрова Чайка)
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What you'll learn
Narrative past tense, present tense in descriptions, long sentences built with commas, colons and та, і, а, vocabulary of the sea, birds, rocks and weather (бурун, кигичуть, галєра), folk-song adjective endings (червоная, суворую, білії), hyphenated particles (доки-ж), од for від, Ukrainian lyrical prose of the early 20th century
This article contains the full text of volume I of the Works of Dniprova Chaika (1919), the pen name of Liudmyla Vasylevska: 28 prose poems, sea legends and short stories, from the girl who becomes a seagull to a storm petrel dreaming of Crimea and starlings caught in snow. Level B2 suits readers who can follow long, rhythmic descriptive sentences in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of the sea, birds and weather, and folk-song forms such as червоная for червона and the hyphenated particle in доки-ж.
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