The Soldier Sorcerer: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read Kotliarevsky’s vaudeville The Soldier Sorcerer in Ukrainian. Level B2: village dialogue, songs and a Russian-speaking soldier and clerk, with word translation.
Москаль-чарівник (Іван Котляревський)
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What you'll learn
Everyday village dialogue, the vocative case (Тетяно, жінко, чоловіче, служивий), household and food vocabulary (бодня, припічок, запіканка, спотикач, вареники), euphemisms for the devil, folk songs in verse, older forms such as од for від, хоть for хоч and єсть for є, and the contrast between Ukrainian and the Russian of the soldier and the clerk
This article contains the full text of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s one-act vaudeville The Soldier Sorcerer (Москаль-чарівник, written 1819, printed 1841): while a carter is away, a dandified clerk courts his wife Tetiana, a soldier is billeted in the hut, and the husband comes home early. Level B2 suits readers who can follow quick dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn village household vocabulary, older forms such as од for від and хоть for хоч, folk songs in verse, and how the comedy plays Ukrainian speech against the Russian of the soldier and the clerk.
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