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Read The Tin Ring in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader retelling of Stepan Vasylchenko’s 1927 novella about three Kyiv boys at a village harvest, for level A2.
Олив'яний перстень (адаптація, Степан Васильченко)
Past tense with gender and plural endings (-в, -ла, -ли, -вся, -лася), perfective verbs with prefixes (прокинувся, засміялася, зв’язали, побігли), clauses with бо, коли, що and щоб, conditionals with б and якби, vocabulary of village life, the harvest and beekeeping (жнива, сніп, перевесло, клуня, ступа, пасіка, вулик)
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of The Tin Ring (Олив’яний перстень), Stepan Vasylchenko’s 1927 novella about three Kyiv schoolboys who walk to a village in the Poltava region and spend the harvest there, retold in simple modern Ukrainian. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 10 words, past-tense narration and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for village life, the harvest, bees and school, and the past-tense endings for he, she and they.