Variant: Variant
| Values: | Short |
Sometimes there are multiple word forms for the same lemma and set of features.
The Variant feature helps distinguish alternate forms.
In Old East Slavic there are two groups of words where double forms are regular and worth capturing:
short forms of adjectives (incl. adjectival pronouns and participles)
and short (clitic) forms of personal pronouns.
This feature only marks the short forms, hence there is only one value, Short.
For the long standard forms the Variant feature remains unspecified.
Short: short form of adjectives or personal pronouns
The short form is called nominal form of adjective (краткая форма прилагательного), as opposed to the long form, which is pronominal because it originated as a combination of a nominal form and a personal pronoun. The short forms of personal pronouns are clitics. They are separate words (unlike in some other languages) but in the clause they usually stick to the second position or some other syntactically determined positions.
Examples
- чистъ “clear, clean”, long equivalent: чистый
- угодна “suitable”, long equivalent: угодная
- таковы “this”, long equivalent: таковые
- нареченъ “called”, long equivalent: нареченный
- ми “me”, long equivalent: мнѣ</b>
Variant in other languages: [be] [cs] [cu] [de] [koi] [kpv] [la] [lt] [mdf] [myv] [orv] [pl] [ps] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sl] [uk]