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Verkhovyna and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (C1)

Read five complete stories by Marko Cheremshyna (1920s) in Ukrainian. Level C1: Hutsul dialect, Carpathian villages under Polish rule. Tap any word to translate it.

Верховина і інші оповідання (Марко Черемшина)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Hutsul dialect forms (шо, ше, тота, тото, гей and гейби for як, аби for щоб), reflexive verbs in -си, є for я (дєдю, тємлю), polite formulas and blessings (аби-сте тривали), vocabulary of village life (ґазда, ґаздиня, бадіка, полонина, бесаги, киптар), Polish administrative words of the 1920s (командант, постерунковий, шандар), folk carols and Midsummer beliefs, long chained sentences

The complete text of five stories by Marko Cheremshyna from the 1920s, as printed in Kraków in 1940: Верховина, about an old Hutsul farmer ordered to drive two officials’ wives to a ball, and four short pieces on Easter, a court, Midsummer Night and Christmas in a village under Polish rule. Level C1: about 12,000 words, 15 words per sentence, with dense Hutsul dialect in narration and speech. You will learn the vocabulary of Carpathian village life and the dialect forms of western Ukraine.

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