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Igenlode Wordsmith
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"The stress tends to be capricious in the short form of many adjectives. The reader should not worry about this unduly at the present stage. He may even be comforted to know that in some cases Russians themselves fail to agree on the stress of the short form of the adjective" - always nice to see a textbook with a sense of humour!
— Feb 02, 2026 06:49AM
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Igenlode Wordsmith
is on page 58 of 384
A nice easy chapter, as we'd already covered the prepositional case in the very first chapter of the other book!
— Feb 15, 2026 04:59PM
Igenlode Wordsmith
is on page 49 of 384
Ironically, two of the words I had to learn for this chapter (смелый, courageous and горло болит, my throat hurts) both subsequently turned up in YouTube videos yesterday: virtue rewarded! (As, oddly enough, did представитель, министерство and торговля, albeit all in separate contexts - one phrase I *never* thought was going to be useful outside the context of the Soviet 1960s!)
— Feb 03, 2026 04:46PM
