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Read Marusia in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader retelling of Marko Vovchok’s legend of a Cossack girl, known as Maroussia, for level A2, with word translation.
Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -вся, -лася), possession with у мене є / у вас є, reported speech with що and чи, clauses with бо, щоб, коли and поки, vocabulary of village life, the steppe, war and disguise (віз, сіно, воли, гетьман, посланець, жебрачка)
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Marusia (Маруся), the legend of a Ukrainian girl in the 17th-century wars that P.-J. Stahl published in French as Maroussia after a story by Marko Vovchok, retold in simple modern Ukrainian. 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 village life, the steppe, travel and war, and past-tense verb endings for he and she.