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The Soldier Sorcerer: read in Ukrainian (A2)

Read The Soldier Sorcerer in simple Ukrainian: a MovaReader prose retelling of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s 1819 vaudeville, for level A2, with word translation.

Москаль-чарівник (адаптація, Іван Котляревський)

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Level A2 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Past tense with gender endings (-в, -ла, -вся, -лася), polite ви and familiar ти, the vocative (Тетяно, паничу, хазяїне, чоловіче), clauses with бо, щоб, якби and коли, vocabulary of the village house, food and drink (піч, припічок, бодня, комірчина, ковбаса, запіканка)

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of The Soldier Sorcerer (Москаль-чарівник), Ivan Kotliarevsky’s 1819 one-act vaudeville about a village wife, a vain town clerk who courts her and a billeted soldier who plays the sorcerer, retold as prose in simple modern Ukrainian. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 8 words, past-tense narration and mostly dialogue. You will learn words for the village house, food and drink, polite and familiar address, and past-tense verb endings for he and she.

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