Questions tagged [прилагательные]
Questions about adjectives, their short and full forms, derivation, spelling, meaning and usage.
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What's the purpose of своё in this sentence?
Here's a sentence from my book: Покрытые злобными колючками ежевичные плети изгибались над отжившими своё зарослями папоротника.
Why is своё in this sentence and why does it have this specific ...
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Rules for dash between subject and predicate when the predicate is an adjective
I'm a native Russian speaker, but I'm a little ashamed that I don't quite know the rules for when I need to use a dash.
Let's consider a very simple sentence:
Маша (—) умная и красивая.
Do we need a ...
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Understanding the different meanings of 'снисходительный'
I was hoping somebody could help me understand the connection (or lack thereof) between the two translations I have seen of the adjective 'снисходительный' on Wiktionary, respectively 1.'indulgent' or ...
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Отглагольное прилагательное или причастие, сколько Н в суффиксе, слитно или раздельно с НЕ?
Дано словосочетание: давно н(..)краше..ые стены.
Это причастие или отглагольное прилагательное, сколько Н в суффиксе, слитно или раздельно пишется с НЕ?
Правильно ли я напишу: давно некрашеные стены (...
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How would you write the word несватаная/несватанная/не сватаная/не сватанная?
There is a Russian song by a female pop band called "Fabrika". The song itself is called "Не виноватая я".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zevEK3UhnQw
The refrain contains the word ...
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How can I figure out if an adjective is hard or soft without seeing its ending?
I can't determine whether the adjective is hard or soft without seeing its ending. I need to be able to tell if the adjective is hard or soft without seeing its ending.
What I mean is, how can I tell ...
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What is the best Russian equivalent for "savory"?
One of the words English uses to describe food is this word called "savory":
From dictionary to dictionary, the definitions found are something like this:
pleasing to the taste or smell; ...
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What does "дл. тонны" mean?
From Russian Wikipedia on the Fletcher-Class Destroyers, it says,
Двигательная установка компоновочно повторяла тип «Гливз» — была высокотемпературной установкой среднего (43 Атм.) давления, которая ...
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What is the difference between "истинная любовь" and "настоящая любовь"?
I didn't plan it like this, but clearly, this one is just in time for Valentine's Day.
Because Russian doesn't have articles, I often try to find a good adjective-noun combo so that I can better ...
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Мне нужна еда // Мне нужно больше еды
Sorry to ask this question in English but my Russian isn't good enough yet to write about grammar.
Please consider the following sentences:
Мне нужна еда.
Мне нужно больше еды.
I don't understand ...
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Не(двуличен) своим поведением
Задумалась мне задумка одна - как ведёт себя краткое прилагательное с частицей "не", слитно или раздельно, когда есть подозреваемый на "зависимое слово".
Не убивший выстрелом ...
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Doubts about "бы ни" meaning "No matter what/ how much/ etc."
I know some Russian constructions which translate the English expressions "Whatever... [sth]", "Wherever... [swh]", "No matter how much... [things]". Those constructions ...
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Крово- и слёзопролитная война
Как я должен говорить и писать:
Это была крово- и слёзопролитная война
Это была крово и слёзопролитная война
Это была крово-и-слёзопролитная война
Это была крово и слёзопролитная война
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In terms of meaning and usage, what is the difference between "маленький" and "малый" when they mean "small"?
Here are some examples I found in Izvestia:
маленький
... маленький по размеру гранатомет в мире ...
... the smallest grenade launcher in the world ...
... 25 руб. за маленький стаканчик ...
... 25 ...
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Should I use the близкий as an adjective or an adverb?
For example, which is correct:
Плохие люди уже близко!
or
Плохие люди уже близки!
Also, would be helpful to understand the logic behind the adverb being used (if using the adverb is correct, that is.)
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What is хлеще the comparative of?
I read the following comment online:
Не сомневаюсь, что и вы умеете выражаться, да ещё похлеще, думаю.
From the context, I gather that it means I have no doubt that you know how to go off on someone ...
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Short- or long-form adjective?
At first I thought short-form adjectives were quite easy after seeing how they are formed. But when to use them turned out to be more complex. Here I have 5 sentences that made me confuse since they ...
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Adjectives after "to be" [duplicate]
How should adjectives be formed after the verb быть?
Он был богат/богатый/богатым.
Фильм будет интересен/интересный/интересным.
Он богат/богатый.
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lack of adjective..... past passive participle? yet its use doesn't fit this first link
First of all, the 'first link' I mention in the title is this:
How to tell a participle from an adjective?
and despite being 5 years old (irrelevant), it is the closest I could find to helping with ...
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Qualifying опыт: when to use "много", when "большой"?
Two examples from Duolingo:
У этого автора большой опыт.
У бабушки много опыта.
Why do I have to use большой in one case, but много in the other, when I want to express "a lot of experience"?
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"выше" - adverb or an adjective?
How to tell an adverb "выше" from an adjective "выше"?
Is it an adjective or an adverb (or, perhaps, a preposition) in the following examples?:
Джек выше других учеников в классе.
Джек был ...
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How do you determine when an adjective is a soft adjective when the ending is not ний
From the limited available resources online, i was able to determine at first that soft adjectives is just with the stem ending ний as explained on these websites (http://masterrussian.com/aa040801a....
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Написание прилагательных, включающих в свой состав числительные
Предположим, у меня есть купюра в 123'456'789 зимбабвийских долларов (не хочу предполагать это с рублями). Как её корректно назвать?
В правилах обычно указывают, что писать такие числительные нужно ...
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Is "51-летний" correct in Russian?
Bumped into this news title today:
I wonder if "51-летний" correct in Russian.
If not, which adjective would be the right one to convey the same meaning?
If yes, how do I pronounce it?
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Why is the negated adjective written separately here?
I am struggling to see the distinction despite a native trying to explain it to me. Consider the following example:
– Игорь, Гарик, вы продолжаете работать на поиске вампирши. – Шеф будто от-
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Which one is grammatically correct, “в Южную Корею” or “в Южная Корею”?
I had been thinking “в Южную Корею” is the right way before I heard “в Южная Корею” in a movie and after searching I found both ways abound in examples.
UPDATE: It was a Japanese movie, 君よ憤怒の河を渉れ, ...
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римановое многообразие or риманово многообразие?
In mathematics the technical term Riemann manifold (or Riemannian manifold) denotes a type of space investigated by the nineteenth century German mathematician Bernhard Riemann.
The corresponding ...
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Why "самый лучший" instead of "лучший"?
Она далеко не самая лучшая кандидатура на такую роль.
vs: Она далеко не лучшая кандидатура на такую роль.
The phrasing "самая лучшая" pulled me up short because... Doesn't it sound like &...
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Adjectives in -ья, -ье
I was doubtful when I saw the words коровье молоко and козье молоко. Then I checked an electronic dictionary (Толковый словарь русского языка for Mac), and there -ья/-ье where referred as the ...
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Adjective-like word before два
I don't know if the word другой is considered an adjective. However it declines like an adjective, and as such I name it an "adjective-like" word.
I know that, when numeral два is either in the ...
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"важные для него события": Is it common to use a phrase like "для него" as part of piled-up attributive adjectives?
вспоминать важные для него события
{vs}: вспоминать важные события
I'm assuming the prepositional phrase "для него", coupled with "важные", attributively modifies the noun "...
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I am confused by the difference between the word for a language and the word for a people who speak that language [duplicate]
The word for a Russian is Русский. The word for the Russian language is по-русский or русский язык (i.e. they are the same). So you could say я Русский.
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Declension of proper name adjectives? [closed]
Is there a table or list of rules on how to write the proper name (possessive?) adjective of a word, based on case as well?
For example,
Пашины родители
Пашиным родителям
Пашиной матери
Юрины ...
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старший или старый а молодой или младший
I asked these together because it didn't make sense (to me) to have two separate, but very related, questions...
I have some trouble with two sets of words (in the title). My two sources are https://...
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How does adjectival nominalisation work in Russian?
отрицать очевидное = deny the obvious
In German, for instance, an adjective can perform the function of a noun by taking the form of:
definitite article + adjective in neutral gender (with a ...
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Declension of adjectives in conjunction with the verb "быть"
I want to express that I had a short night.
Night is a feminine noun, so I would decline the adjective accordingly:
Моя ночь была короткая.
I know that short forms exist and can be applied, when ...
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"Я один кто не знал, что вариантов у итогового теста два?"
вариантов или варианта? Или можно использовать обе вариации?
Нужна ли запятая перед что?
Можно ли использовать один, или грамматически верно использовать только единственный?
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"Толстой" and "толстый"
Can one explain why the adjective толстый appears in the name of the famous writer as Толстой, i e with a different ending?
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What is the difference between "занятый" and "занятой"?
I recently came upon the following:
Он занят.
As I usually do when I come across a verb I'm not familiar with, I look it up to find out what the infinitive for it is. I usually use Wiktionary and ...
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"Действующий и будущий регуляторы" - why not "действующие и будущие"?
Действующий и будущий регуляторы отрасли — Минфин и ЦБ — согласовали проект реформы аудита в России.
This is from an article from kommersant.ru, why are the adjectives at the start in nominal ...
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Does the Russian numeral rule for the adjective that comes between the number and the noun (see below) apply to animate nouns in actual usage?
The rule I refer to is this:
For numeral + adjective + noun in genitive case structures where the numeral-noun-adjective phrase is serving in a nominative case (e.g., the three little pigs went to ...
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Can anyone clear up some discrepancies between rules for numeral+adjective+noun agreement for 2/3/4 and actual usage (as found through e-sources)?
While trying to augment my knowledge on Russian numerals with regard to how they combine with nouns and adjectives, I paid a visit to Reverso after learning that any adjectives placed between the ...
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Changing nouns into adjectives [closed]
How can I change nouns into adjectives?
Ветер → Ветреный
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Productivity of short adjectives derived from those of -ний type
For most adjectives, a basic ground form to derive the rest in a paradigm seems to be that of Masculine Singular and they therefore can be divided into -ый, -ой and -ий-types.
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Двадцать один хорош(?) год - declension after number 21
EN: I know that number 21 (in nominative) demands nominative singular (21 год) and, although number 22 (in nominative) would demand genitive singular from the upcoming noun (22 года), an adjective ...
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Why is the adjective "главное" in neuter gender?
Why is the adjective "главный" in neuter gender in the following sentence? метод and результат are masculine.
главное не метод, а результат.
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Forming Russian nouns from verbs
I've noticed a couple of patterns in regards to forming nouns from verbs.
1) Removing the -ть from verbs ending in -бить/быть, -вить, чать and -ять and adding -тие (for example: разбить --> разбитие,...
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What is the grammatical difference between "валютный курс" and "курс доллара"?
what is the grammatical difference between валютный курс and курс доллара in the following sentences:
1) я хочу узнать валютный курс. (here, валютный is adjective and курс is a masculine noun)
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Difference between "провокационный" and "провокативный"
The dictionaries list provocative in both cases... I'm wondering if there's any difference.
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what are these endings: -о and ие?
I couldn't understand the suffixes(endings) of the words written in bold in the following sentence.
э́то мои́ но́вые Англо-ру́сские словари́.
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