The Servant Girl: read in Ukrainian (A2)
Read Shevchenko’s Naimychka in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of the 1845 poem for level A2, in the past tense, with word translation.
Наймичка (адаптація, Тарас Шевченко)
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What you'll learn
Past tense with gender endings (працювала, прокидався, ворушився), verb prefixes of completion (доїдати, допивати, діждатися), vocative forms (Насте, Трохиме, доню, Катре), the explaining word тобто, imperatives (стривай, візьмімо, прости), vocabulary of the farmstead, family, wedding customs and pilgrimage, old words хутір, свитка, чумак, старости, коровай, очіпок
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s narrative poem The Servant Girl (Наймичка, 1845), retold in simple standard Ukrainian prose. A young mother leaves her baby at the gate of an old childless couple and comes back as their hired servant to raise him. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 9 words, past-tense narration and many short dialogues. You will learn words for the farmstead, family and wedding customs, a few old words explained in the text, and past-tense verbs with their prefixes.
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