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Read The Institute Girl in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader retelling of Marko Vovchok’s 1862 novella about a serf maid, for level B1, with word translation.
Past tense of verbs of speech and feeling (сказала, закричала, заплакала), vocative forms (Устино, Прокопе, Назаре, бабусю, дядьку), serf-life vocabulary (пан, пані, кріпак, панщина, хутір, посаг), comparisons with як and наче, folk sayings
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Marko Vovchok’s novella The Institute Girl (Інститутка, 1862), retold in simple modern Ukrainian. A serf girl, Ustyna, tells in the first person how she served a cruel young lady educated at a boarding institute. Level B1 suits learners who know the past tense: sentences of about 12 words and about a third of the text in dialogue. You will learn the vocabulary of serf life, the vocative forms of names and many folk sayings.
