Martyn Borulia: read in Ukrainian (A2)
Read Martyn Borulia in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of Ivan Karpenko-Karyi’s 1886 comedy about a farmer chasing nobility, for level A2.
Мартин Боруля (адаптація, Іван Карпенко-Карий)
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What you'll learn
Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -ли, -вся, -лася), the vocative case in address (Марисю, Степане, тату, мамо), imperatives (читайте, привчайся, не кричи), polite ви and familiar ти, як ... то and що clauses, vocabulary of village life, ranks and papers (пан, панич, мужик, наймит, дворянин, чин, папір, суд, п’яльця, постоли)
This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Martyn Borulia (Мартин Боруля), Ivan Karpenko-Karyi’s 1886 comedy in five acts about a well-off village farmer obsessed with proving he is a nobleman, retold as prose in simple modern Ukrainian. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 8 words, past-tense narration and plenty of short dialogue. You will learn words for village life, ranks and papers, family address, and the past-tense endings for he, she and they.
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