🌳 Во поле берёза стояла
Русская народная песня · 👶 Infantil · A1 · Easy · Folk · Nature · Past tense
🎬 Official video no YouTube. See the full lyrics and translation
🎤 Lyrics · karaoke
Traditional lyrics (public domain). Tap a line to hear it; sing along with the video!
About the song
Самая известная русская народная песня. Медленная и ясная: хорошо слышно прошедшее время.
One of the best-known Russian folk songs — Tchaikovsky quoted it in his Fourth Symphony. A birch tree stands in a field; the singer wants to break off its branches. Slow, repetitive and clear: great for the past tense and for hearing unstressed vowels.
🎧 Words you will hear in the song
These words really appear in the lyrics. Listen and try to catch them when they are sung.
- поле— fieldво поле = in the field (old form of в поле)
- берёза— birch treea symbol of Russia
- стоять— to standстояла = it stood (past, feminine)
- кудрявый— curly, leafy
- люли— (a traditional refrain, no meaning)
💬 Expressions and notes
- берёза стояла— the birch stood
past tense agrees with берёза (feminine): -ла
- во поле— in the field
poetic; today: в поле
Comprehension
Где стояла берёза?
Какая была берёза?
«Стояла» — окончание -ла, потому что берёза…