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The Cat and the Rooster and Other Tales: read in Ukrainian (A1)

Read four Ukrainian folk tales, from the cat and the rooster to the two daughters in the forest, in simple Ukrainian: an A1 retelling with word translation.

Котик і Півник та інші казки (адаптація, Українські народні казки)

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense, the past tense in speech (приходив, врятував, привезла), the vocative case (Півнику, Котику, лисичко, вовчику, дівчино), the imperative (сиди, відчини, клади, почисти), perfective verbs with future meaning (поклюю, зламаю, візьму), everyday vocabulary (home, food, farm and forest animals, winter), diminutives (котик, півник, лисичка, пиріжок)

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of four Ukrainian folk tales (Котик і Півник, Лисичка і вовк, Куца лисиця and Дідова дочка й бабина дочка), based on O. Bilousenko’s 1918 reader Баю-баю and retold in simple Ukrainian. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for the village home, food, farm and forest animals and winter, the vocative used whenever characters call each other, and the repeated lines that carry folk tales.

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