Sunday Borscht and Varenyky: Ukrainian A1
Read a simple story about bean borscht and varenyky with a potato filling.
Недільний обід: борщ і вареники
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What you'll learn
vegetable, dough, filling and family meal vocabulary, plus simple present tense forms
The narrator and their grandmother prepare their family's meat-free borscht and varenyky with potato and onion.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
приходжу до бабусі
newI come to my grandmother's home
«Приходжу» means that the speaker arrives at a place.
Useful for talking about a visit.
дає борщу темно-червоний колір
newgives the borscht its colour
The form «борщу» shows what receives the colour.
Useful for describing a cooking result.
розкачує тісто
newrolls out the dough
The phrase means making dough thin with a rolling pin.
Useful in a recipe.
піднімаються на поверхню
newrise to the surface
The phrase describes the dumplings moving up from the bottom of the pot.
Helps explain a recipe step.
за одним столом
newtogether at one table
The phrase shows that people sit and eat together.
Useful for a family meal.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Буряк
буряк
beetroot
A vegetable with a dark red root.
A key ingredient in this borscht.
Квасоля
квасолю
beans
In the sentence, «квасолю» names what is added to the borscht.
Useful food vocabulary.
Начинка
начинка
filling
Food placed inside a dumpling or another dish.
Needed for talking about varenyky.
Кружечки
кружечки
small circles
The plural form of «кружечок», a small round shape.
Useful for describing dough shapes.
Сметана
сметану
sour cream
In the sentence, «сметану» names what each person adds.
Common recipe vocabulary.
Кріп
кріп
dill
An aromatic herb with fine green leaves used in food.
Useful kitchen vocabulary.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
A verb with «ми»
Ми додаємо квасолю
we add beans
The ending «-ємо» marks the first person plural.
Useful for talking about a shared action.
Немає with the genitive
немає м'яса
there is no meat
After «немає», «м'ясо» changes to «м'яса».
A basic pattern for saying something is absent.
The form «ріжу»
Я ріжу
I cut
In the first person singular, «різати» becomes «ріжу».
Useful for describing cooking.
A question with «ти»
Що ти додаєш
what do you add?
«Додаєш» informally addresses one person.
Useful for personal questions.
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