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Nine Brothers and Their Sister Halia: read in Ukrainian (A1)

Read Marko Vovchok’s tale of a poor widow’s nine sons and their sister Halia in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader A1 retelling with word translation.

Дев’ять братів і десята сестриця Галя (адаптація, Марко Вовчок)

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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense, everyday vocabulary (family, home, food, work, seasons, the river and the meadow), the vocative case (мамо, Галю, братику, синку), nouns for the young in -ята (голуб’ята), diminutives (хатка, чобітки, Галочка), simple past forms in a told story

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of Marko Vovchok’s literary fairy tale Дев’ять братів і десята сестриця Галя (1863), retold in simple Ukrainian. Level A1 suits beginners: short sentences, the present tense and plenty of dialogue. You will learn words for family, home, poverty and work, seasons and the countryside around Kyiv and the Dnipro, and simple everyday questions and answers.

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