Help with a definition
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Thu Dec 13 15:26:09 UTC 2012
Трагичный relates to events: трагичная
ситуация, it could be said about day-to-day events.
Трагический (I think) either leads or comes out of a tragic
situation: трагическое выражение лица,
вспоминается один трагический случай.
Трагедийный is related to трагедия, in a tragedy or
like in a tragedy:
Агибенин устроил страшный трагедийный
шум под окнами Елены Вяземской и
угрожал, задрав голову вверх,
застрелиться. [Эдуард Лимонов. У нас
была Великая Эпоха (1987)]
Трагедийная героиня, безусловно,
Виктория Карасева ―
двадцатисемилетняя девица с
тяжеловатой красотой провинциальной
премьерши. [Евгения Пищикова.
Пятиэтажная Россия (2007) // «Русская
Жизнь», 2008]
On Dec 13, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Helena Calogeridis wrote:
> Hi all:
> One of my German profs is using a Russian text for his research and
> stumbled over the following word: трагедийный (as opposed
> to трагический or трагичный).
> A number of print and online dictionaries was consulted without much
> success, when trying to distinguish among the meanings of
> “tragic”. Perhaps a Russian native speaker might help us best
> with these nuances.
> Thank you in advance for any help with this. Helena
>
> Helena Calogeridis
> Librarian for French, Germanic and Slavic, Spanish and Latin
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