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Now why don't we learn Russian adjectives? Adjectives indicate attributes of objects (quality, characteristics, possesiveness): папина машина (a father's car), молодой человек (a young man) and agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case: увидел красивую девушку (saw a beautiful girl), звонил местным депутатам (called local deputies). In the Accusative case adjectives might have different forms depending on animation/inanimation of the noun: веду новый проект, вижу нового участника (I manage a new project, see a new participant). Normally these affixes are used to form adjectives: -н-, -оват, -еват-, -ист-, -к-, -ск- and others: весенний дождь (spring rain), американский (americal). Sound interesting? Let's learn more !
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In this lessons we'll learn about Russian Adverbs. Adverbs are used to define the characteristics of adjectives and verbs : идти быстро (to walk fast), жить дружно (to live peacefully), прыгать высоко (to jump high).
Adverbs are normally formed from other parts of speech. For emample :
- from Nouns : глубина(depth) - вглубь (downward), ряд (row) - подряд (in a row);
- from Adjectives : громкий (loud) - громко (loudly), японский (japanese) - по-японски (japanese or japanese way);
- from Numerals: четыре (four) - вчетвером (four of us); первый (first) - во-первых (first of all);
- from Pronouns: ничей (no one's) - вничью (draw ending)
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Declension of adjectives |
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Like nouns adjectives have 3 types of declension. The table below sums up the differences we need to know to tell one from the other:
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Comparative form of adjectives |
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Only qualitative adjectives can have comparative forms: сильный, сильнее, самый сильный или сильнейший (strong, stronger, the strongest). Take a look at the table:
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Adjectives : quantative, possesive and relative |
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Adjectives fall into 3 categories: qualitative, relative and possesive.
Qualitative denote different qualities of an object directly:
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Short and long forms of adjectives |
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Russian adjectives have short and long forms. Remember that only qualitative adjectives may have both long and short forms (красивый- красив, быстрый- быстр). Although in modern Russian language the use of the long form is preferred, you will most likely come across the short form as well:
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