short form Russian adjectives

[Frank Y Gladney]

Frans Suasso cites E.Tauscher and E.G. Kirschbaum, Grammatik der russischen Sprache, where they state, "Keine Kurzformen haben haufig von Verben abgeleitete Adjective auf -lyj, z.B  ustarelyj 'veraltet, unmodern', umelyj 'eschickt, gewandt', ostalyj 'rückständig'. osirotelyj 'verwaist'." 

This is generally true of active participles in Russian.  There are no short forms corresponding to _ustareiushchii_ or _ustarevshii_ either.

Frank Y. Gladney

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