Sirko and Other Tales: read in Ukrainian (A1)
Read five Ukrainian folk tales, from Sirko the old dog to the loach and the pike, in simple Ukrainian: an A1 retelling with word translation.
Сірко та інші казки (адаптація, Українські народні казки)
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What you'll learn
Present tense, the past tense in speech (прогнав, врятував, зробив), the vocative case (Сірку, вовче, козо, шуляче), the imperative (іди, відчини, бийте, ходімо), perfective verbs with future meaning (відчиню, прорию, віддячу), everyday vocabulary (home, food, farm animals, field, river), chains of reasons with бо
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of five Ukrainian folk tales (Сірко, Теля і друзі, Овечка й козлик, Горобець і билинка and В’юн і щука), based on Ivan Rudchenko’s collection of 1869 and retold in simple Ukrainian. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for the village home, farm animals, food, the field and the river, the vocative used whenever characters call each other, and the repeated lines of chain tales.
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