Authors

• Mozhdeh Dehghan Khalili ¹
• Hosen Gholami ²

¹ PhD student in Russian language teaching, National University of Teacher Training, Moscow

² Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Tehran

Abstract

  A Comparative Study of Short and Long Adjectives in The Russian Language     H. Gholami [1]   M. Dehghan Khalili [2]   Received: 2011.11.06   Accepted: 2012.04.29     Abstract   In the Russian language, when short and long adjectives come up to short adjectives, they are used as long ones. Sometimes the use of one of these adjectives, is preferred over another and the reason for this preference is integrated closely with style, semantics, sentence position, transformability or non-transformability. Thus, depending on which adjective in a sentence structure is appropriate, one kind needs to be selected. It must be noted that these adjectives should not be mistaken with its similar forms in terms of pronunciation, and written forms (current adjectives, adverbs, and state bond issue to help ‘модальные слова’ the words of the speaker to communicate among themselves). In the Russian language, some forms of the short adjectives, verbal adjectives and adverbs are used mostly in formal and literary Russian. However, this does not mean that they are not used in colloquial Russian. In general, because long adjectives are easily conjugated and are in harmony with the subject and are used more commonly, they are more tangible for foreign language learners. In this study, more emphasis is placed on short vowels, and when necessary there is a focus on its comparison with long adjectives in order to present a process oriented teaching methodology from simple to more complex levels.     Keywords: short adjectives, long adjectives, academic style, colloquial language, reliance, fixed combinations.     [1] . Associate Professor; Russian Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages & Literature,   University of Tehran; hgholamy@ut.ac.ir   [2] . Ph.D Candidate; Teaching Russian Language, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia; dehghanmojdeh@ymail.com  

Keywords

• short adjectives
• long adjectives
• academic style
• colloquial language
• reliance
• fixed combinations