perfect tense

[E Wayles Browne]

Try differentiating them by looking for the plural.
My ustali (verb) has many hits on Google;
my ustaly (adjective) has few hits, and most among them are just one line from a song, my ustaly i ser'ëzny.
But both exist.

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Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] perfect tense

There are presumably contexts where устал is unambiguously a verb; there would seem to be contexts where it is unambiguously an adjective.  But if there are contexts where the two forms are identical not only formally and etymologically, but also semantically, then it is not clear to me how one might attempt to differentiate them...


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