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Read Karmeliuk in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of Stepan Vasylchenko’s 1927 play about a Podillia rebel, for level A2, with word translation.
Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -вся, -лася), imperatives (грай, беріть, не бійтеся), polite ви and familiar ти, reported speech with що and щоб, possession with у + genitive, vocabulary of serfdom, the manor and the village (пан, панщина, економ, отаман, облава, штраф, ціп)
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Karmeliuk (Кармелюк), Stepan Vasylchenko’s 1927 play in three acts about Ustym Karmeliuk, the peasant rebel of Podillia who took from landlords and gave to the poor, retold as prose 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, serfdom and the manor, commands and polite address, and past-tense verb endings for he and she.
