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Read Dorohoiu tsinoiu in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader retelling of Kotsiubynsky’s 1902 novella about runaway serfs, for level A2, with word translation.
Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -ли), imperatives (ріж, тікай, ходімо), dative with impersonal words (вовкові набридло, Остапові стало легко), clauses with бо, коли, який, щоб, vocabulary of village life, rivers and marshes, serfdom and freedom
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s novella Dorohoiu tsinoiu (Дорогою ціною, “At a Heavy Price”, 1902), retold in simple modern Ukrainian. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 10 words, past-tense narration and short dialogues. You will learn words for village life, rivers, reeds and travel, the vocabulary of serfdom and freedom, imperatives and past-tense verbs with gender endings.
