The Thief and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read 19 complete stories by Vasyl Stefanyk (1897-1929) in Ukrainian. Level C1: Pokuttia dialect, village courts, prison and old age. Tap any word to translate it.
Злодій та інші новели (Василь Стефаник)
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What you'll learn
Pokuttia dialect forms (шо, ци, аді, дес, біг-ме, гет, відай), reflexive verbs in -си, є for я (мнєкий, весілє, тєжко), person endings on small words (би-м, шо-м, аби-сте, як-єс), future with меш, vocabulary of village life, the village council, prison and carols, terse expressive narration
The complete text of 19 stories by Vasyl Stefanyk (1897-1929), among them The Thief, about a farmer and the thief he catches in his storeroom, the prison letter Лист and the village trial Суд. Level C1: about 19,700 words with dense Pokuttia dialect in narration and speech. A companion to The Stone Cross and Other Stories, with no story in common. You will learn the vocabulary of village life, local government and the Austrian era, and the dialect forms of western Ukraine.
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