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The Servant Girl and Other Poems: read in Ukrainian (C1)

Read fifteen narrative poems by Taras Shevchenko in Ukrainian, Prague Kobzar of 1876. Level C1: folk ballads and village tales in verse, with word translation.

Наймичка та інші поеми (Тарас Шевченко)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Verse narrative and folk-song style, past and present tense in storytelling, the vocative case in laments and addresses, dialogue scenes laid out as a play, long adjective forms of folk poetry (козацькиї, молодая, білеє), vocabulary of village life and folk belief (кісники, щепи, китайка, русалка), the 1876 spelling (ё for йо, ъ and ь for the apostrophe, hyphenated prepositions such as в-ранці), Church Slavonic in prayers, Ukrainian poetry of 1837-1850

This article contains the complete text of fifteen narrative poems by Taras Shevchenko as printed in the Prague Kobzar of 1876, among them Наймичка (The Servant Girl), Причинна and Гамалія: ballads of bewitched and drowned girls, a Cossack sea raid, and village stories of seduced servant girls, landlords and convicts, written between 1837 and 1850. Level C1 suits readers who can follow Ukrainian verse and want to learn the forms of folk song and the 1876 spelling. You will learn the vocabulary of village life and folk poetry, and old forms such as ёго for його, люде for люди and в-ранці for вранці.

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