Kaidash’s Family: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Nechuy-Levytsky’s Kaidash’s Family in Ukrainian, 1879 edition. Level C1: a village family feud, lively dialogue and old spelling, with word translation.
Кайдашева сім’я (Іван Нечуй-Левицький)
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What you'll learn
Narrative past tense, present tense in landscape descriptions, village dialogue with imperatives and forms of address, vocabulary of the house, farm work and church holidays (возовиця, запаска, колотнеча), the 1879 spelling (и for і, с for з, ё for йо, і for ї, міні for мені), older forms such as од for від, Ukrainian prose of the 1870s
This article contains the full text of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky’s comic novella Kaidash’s Family in its first separate edition (Lviv, 1879): two brothers, their quarrelsome parents and two daughters-in-law share one yard in the village of Semyhory on the Ros river. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long descriptions and fast village dialogue in Ukrainian and want to learn the 1879 spelling. You will learn the vocabulary of the house, the yard and farm work, and old spellings such as и for і, с for з, ёго for його and іх for їх.
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