Stolen Happiness: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read Franko’s play Stolen Happiness in Ukrainian. Level B2: a Galician village, a husband, a wife and a gendarme, with instant word translation.
Украдене щастя (Іван Франко)
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What you'll learn
Quick spoken dialogue with stage directions inside the lines, the vocative (кумо, Миколо, пане шандаре), impersonal forms in -но (вкрадено, розбито) and the imperative for “let us” (відокрадімо), Galician village speech (шандар, пощо, відки, відтак, лиш, повинні-сте), German loans of Austrian officialdom (постенфірер, форшпан), folk songs and proverbs, Ukrainian drama of the 1890s
This article contains the full text of Ivan Franko’s five-act play Stolen Happiness (staged 1893, printed 1894), a drama of village life in Austrian Galicia around 1870: Anna, married off by her brothers to the older carter Mykola, learns that Mykhailo, the man she loved, is alive and has come back as the district gendarme. Level B2 suits readers who can follow quick spoken dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the Galician village speech of the 1870s (шандар, пощо, відки, відтак), German loans of Austrian officialdom, folk songs and sayings, and how stage directions run into the lines in this edition.
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