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Read Vynnychenko’s novella Holota in Ukrainian. Level B2: farmhands, a steward and a lost medal on a landowner’s estate, lively dialogue, word translation.
Dialogue and colloquial speech, vocabulary of the estate, the kitchen and hired work (наймичка, економія, кандьор), feelings and social conflict, proverbs and sayings, Russian-tinged speech of the time, early 20th-century Ukrainian spelling (од- for від-, genitives in -ости, ґ)
This article contains the complete novella Holota (The Poor, 1905) by Volodymyr Vynnychenko, about the hired hands of a landowner’s estate around 1900: a proud cook, a bitter seasonal worker, an orphan servant girl, an old night watchman and a landed peasant’s son who works beside them. Level B2 suits readers who follow fast dialogue in Ukrainian and can handle almost one long word in ten. You will learn everyday spoken Ukrainian, the vocabulary of estate work and older forms such as одмовив, зідхнув and злости.
