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Questions about adjectives, their short and full forms, derivation, spelling, meaning and usage.

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In reference to Adjectives what does "anim." mean?

That anim. stands for 'animate'. Russian nouns are classified into Animate nouns (people, animals, but also names of different kinds of dolls, the noun 'мертвец' - 'dead man', and 'робот' - 'robot') …
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How to translate Вырвиглазный into English?

Urban Dictionary has some variants: eye-hurt - A visible object that hurts your brain when viewed. This could be an ugly-ass girl/guy, or a crappy piece of art. Damn website font is eye-hurt! . eye …
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Little questions regarding "tram stop"

Apart from putting the adjective into the feminine gender to adjust it to the feminine noun остановка, you also have to put the resulting word combination into the Accusative case, because the preposi …
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"выше" - adverb or an adjective?

Sometimes only the context can help us decide if выше is an adjective or an adverb. I agree with @Sergey Slepov that выше in sentences 5, 6, 8 can be only adverbs. Still, one can find such contexts t …
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I am confused by the difference between the word for a language and the word for a people wh...

Yes, in Russian, the name of the nationality is usually different from the name of the language. That's because nationalities are nouns, English often has the same difference: nationality is Pole, but …
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Разница между "сильный", "острый" и "резкий" (запах)

Запахи называются по объекту или веществу их издающему, а все прилагательные, описывающие запахи, являются сугубо субъективными, один и тот же запах может одному человеку казаться родным и вызывающим тёплые …
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Двадцать один хорош(?) год - declension after number 21

All the numerals ending in 1, exept for those that end in 11 (11, 111, 711, 1011, etc.), need the following noun in the Nominatve case singular. If there is also an attribute adjective, it agrees with …
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Мне нужна еда // Мне нужно больше еды

As Sergey Slepov in his answer correctly noted, the subject of the first sentence is еда which is feminine so the predicate нужна agrees with the subject in the feminine. The things are quite differen …
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Как образовывать прилагательные с суффиксами -н- и -ов-?

От одного и того же корня часто образуются оба прилагательные, и с -ов-/-ев-, и с -н-, оба слова в таких парах, как правило, выступают с разными значениями или с разными оттенками значения. …
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How to tell a participle from an adjective?

As far as I know, the participles mean "the ones which are being changed" (your example #1), and the adjectives mean "the ones that can be changed" (your examples #2 and #3). Anyhow, it is very diffic …
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"Красная" Площадь

The Kremlin was painted red only in the times of Stalin, about 1947, before that it was painted white, so the name Красная площадь which was first attested in the early 17th century could no way relat …
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