b. Abbreviations / Сократеньи


Abbreviation Meaning
1 First Person
2 Second Person
3 Third Person
abs Absolute Pronoun
acc Accusative
act Active Voice
adj Adjective
adv Adverb
coll Colloquial(ly)
comp Comparative
cond Conditional
cs (Late) Common Slavic
dat impers Impersonal Dative
dat/ins Dative/Instrumental (also “D/I”)
def Definite
det Determinate
dimin Diminutive
dist Distributive
dl Dual
dur Durative
emph Emphatic
excess Excessive Degree
expl Overt Expletive
f Feminine
fem Feminine
fut Future
gen Genitive
ie Indo-European
impf Imperfective
inch Inchoative
indef Indefinite
indet Indeterminate
inf Infinitive
intens Intensive Degree
intr Intransitive
iter Iterative
lat Lative
lit Literally
loc Locative
m Masculine
masc Masculine
mid Middle Voice
n Neuter
neg Negative
neut Neuter
nom Nominative
nov Novegradian
ocs Old Church Slavonic
on Old Novegradian
opt Optative
part Partitive
pass Passive Voice
pf Perfective
pie Proto-Indo-European
pl Plural
poet Poetic or Flowery Style
poss Possessive Adjective
ptcp Participle
q Interrogative/Question Particle
qual rel Qualitative Relative Pronoun
reflx Reflexive
reflx poss Reflexive Possessive Adjective
rel Relative Pronoun
sl Slang
sg Singular
subj Subjunctive
sup Supine
super Superlative
tel Telic
top Topical Marker
tr Transitive
tri Trial Superlative
voc Vocative