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The Princess: read in Ukrainian (B1)

Read The Princess in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader retelling of Olha Kobylianska’s 1896 feminist novel for level B1, with word translation.

Царівна (адаптація, Ольга Кобилянська)

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Level B1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Past-tense narration of feelings and reactions (почервоніла, зблідла, прошепотіла, засміявся), reflexive verbs in -ся (гойдалася, сердилася, боялася), adverbial participles (повернувшись, дивлячись), family words (дядько, тітка, кузини, вуйко), the vocative case (бабуню, дядечку, Наталонько, Василечку, Павлинко), abstract nouns of the inner life (милосердя, справедливість, мета, воля) and sayings such as яблуко від яблуні недалеко котиться

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Olha Kobylianska’s novel The Princess (Царівна, 1896), one of the first feminist novels in Ukrainian literature, retold in simple modern Ukrainian. Level B1 suits learners who know the past tense: sentences of about 11 words, lively dialogue, a few short diary entries and a clear story of an orphan in Bukovyna who wants to live by her own work. You will learn words for feelings and the inner life, family and home, and a few sayings.

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