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Read Natalka Poltavka in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s 1819 play with songs, for level A2, with word translation.
Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -вся, -лася), polite ви and familiar ти, reported speech with що and чи, clauses with бо, щоб, якщо and коли, vocabulary of village life, matchmaking and family (сватати, жених, рушник, вдова, коромисло, возний)
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Natalka Poltavka (Наталка Полтавка), Ivan Kotliarevsky’s 1819 play with songs about a poor village girl near Poltava, her lost sweetheart and a pompous official, retold as prose in simple modern Ukrainian. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 9 words, past-tense narration and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for village life, matchmaking and family, polite and familiar address, and past-tense verb endings for he and she.
