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

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What implicit noun does запятая modify?

Although запятая is a noun, its endings make it look like an adjective, so I presume that there is some implicit noun that запятая is modifying without ever being explicitly used (similar to столовая = столовая комната and кривая = кривая линия).…
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What does the adjectival ending -енький mean?

It seems dictionaries rarely offer definitions for adjectives that have the suffix -енький. There are a few (for instance: маленький; хорошенький), but by Googling many more show up (for instance: старенький; толстенький; весёленький). What nuance…
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Are there any adjectives ending in -фый/-фий/-фой?

Are there any Russian adjectives, whether they end in -ый, -ий, or -ой, whose final consonant is ф? (I.e. -фый, -фий, -фой)
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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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«годовая» экспедиция and "year" adjectives

In conjunction with the recent Союз ТМА-18М mission there have been references to the «годовая» экпедиция of Scott Kelly and Михаил Корниенко, who spent 340 days in space. My understanding of Russian "year" adjectives is: ежего́дный = annual,…
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Suffix "-но" on adjective? "ошеломленно"

I have the word ошеломленный on a text I am reading, but it is written as ошеломленно. I cannot understand what is happening with this adjective's suffix? I have looked at all the charts and "но" does not seem to be a suffix option for adjectives.…
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Is it true that Russian adjectives always denote a constant quality while participles, temporary?

It is indeed true that distinguishing between Russian adjectives and participles can be very hard. E.g. "жареный картофель" — an adjective; "жаренный с грибами картофель" — a participle. My question is: is it true that adjectives denote something…
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Adjectives preceding multiple nouns

If an adjective precedes multiple nouns of different number/gender but describes all of them, which form of the adjective should be used? Or must an adjective be repeated when describing the nouns to avoid misunderstandings?
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What is the difference between "правильна" and "правильная"?

Both of these adjectives seem to mean "correct", but I do not understand the difference.
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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 "(не)свата(н/нн)ая) which is either несватаная, несватанная, не…
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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 replacements for -ий in their respective adjectives. So…
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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. Historically and stylistically, the shortened adjectives seem to be more…
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difference between наиболее and самый + adjective

I have read this sentence: "какие професии наиболее востребованы?", which translates "Which jobs are the most needed?". so here "the most (+ adjective)" is rendered with наиболее. My problem is: to translate "the most..." I have always said "самый…
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In reference to Adjectives what does "anim." mean?

I'm a beginner to Russian and I was learning the cases for adjectives. For several of the cases there was a different ending with "(anim.)" after it. What does this mean? The table I saw this on:
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What is the accusative case for adjectives?

When would I use the accusative case for adjectives? I get that there are different endings for different cases but I don't understand how to use the accusative case. If you could use examples, that would be great! Thanks! Btw, isn't the…
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