The Princess: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Kobylianska’s complete 1896 novel in Ukrainian. Level C1: an orphan’s diary in the old Bukovyna spelling, about love, work and freedom.
Царівна (Ольга Кобилянська)
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What you'll learn
Long reflective sentences and diary writing, inner monologue, family dialogue, vocabulary of feelings, marriage, education and work, regional and Polish-shaped words of Bukovyna (вуйко, нераз, відтак, лицювати, пересаджувати), the 1896 Zhelekhivka spelling (ся written apart, єго, она, ї after consonants as in нїчого and сьвіт), forms of котрий for який, German, French and Latin quotations, Ukrainian prose of the 1890s
This article contains the complete novel Царівна (The Princess) by Olha Kobylianska, printed in Chernivtsi in 1896 and kept in its original Zhelekhivka spelling. Most of it is the diary of Natalka Verkovychivna, an orphan in a Bukovynian town who wants a life of her own and work that matters, torn between a proud, unreliable young man and a marriage of convenience; the last chapters turn to third-person narration. Level C1 suits readers who handle long reflective sentences in Ukrainian. You will practise the vocabulary of feelings, family and education, regional words of Bukovyna, and the old spelling with ся written apart, єго for його and она for вона.
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