Інститутка (Марко Вовчок)

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Level B2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Narrative past tense and lively historic present, habitual було (було каже), vocabulary of serfdom and the household (пані, панночка, двір, дівоча), affectionate diminutives (серденько, хутенько, старесенька), older forms such as се for це and short reflexive verbs (здивувавсь), the 1929 Lviv spelling without apostrophe (бють), Ukrainian prose of the 1860s

This article contains the full text of Marko Vovchok’s novella The Institute Girl (Інститутка, 1862), in which Ustyna, an orphaned serf maid, tells how she served a young lady fresh from a boarding institute in Kyiv and followed her to a small farmstead after her marriage. Level B2 suits readers who can follow fast dialogue and a narrator speaking in folk Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of the manor and the village household, affectionate diminutives such as серденько and хутенько, and older forms such as се for це and здивувавсь for здивувався.

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