The Flail Binder and For the Common Good: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read two complete Kotsiubynsky stories in Ukrainian. Level C1: a farmhand’s hunger for land and a Moldovan vineyard facing phylloxera, with word translation.
Ціпов'яз. Для загального добра (Михайло Коцюбинський)
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What you'll learn
Long descriptive sentences and inner monologue, peasant dialogue with proverbs, vocabulary of land and village government (морг, шнур, писар, становий, соцький, прошеніє), vine growing and the phylloxera (виноградник, лоза, корінці, філоксера), Romanian words of Bessarabia (домнулє, каруца, мамалига, примар), older forms such as котрий for який, зупинивсь for зупинився and радости for радості, Ukrainian prose of 1893-1895
This article contains two complete early stories by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, written in 1893 and 1895 and put together by MovaReader: Ціпов’яз, about a landless farmhand in a Podillia village, his petition to the tsar and his scheming brother, and Для загального добра, about a phylloxera commission cutting vineyards in a Moldovan village on the Prut, drawn from the author’s own work in Bessarabia. Level C1 suits readers who handle long descriptive sentences and dense vocabulary in Ukrainian. You will practise the vocabulary of land, village government and vine growing, Romanian words of Bessarabia, and older forms such as котрий for який and зупинивсь for зупинився.
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