Previously only sold as the book 5000 Russian Words: With All Their Inflected Forms and Other Grammatical Information, A Russian-English Dictionary with an English-Russian Word Index by Leed, ISBN 0-89357-170-9, this new book and software bundle now includes the invaluable handbook for people learning Russian plus the Russian Dictionary Tree software CD. This book and software packet is meant to serve as the go-to reference book for all learners and users of Russian, from beginning learners to veterans, in classes or studying on their own. Containing over 5000 entries, complete with all their inflected forms and other grammatical information, this book is an excellent compilation of the most common words used in written Russian. The accompanying software covers a longer list of words, going beyond the original printed book, and runs on both Mac and Windows systems.

This dictionary presents inflectional information in two formats: (1) a succinct display of key forms much as in conventional dictionaries and (2) an exhaustive display of all the inflected forms. Thus, the student gets to see what is irregular about a particular word as well as its spelled-out forms. The appendix contains a complete statement of the rules of inflection. The sole authority for the inflection of words in this dictionary is Zaliznjak's Grammaticheskij slovar' russkogo zyka.

In addition to the exhaustive display of inflectional morphology, the entries in this dictionary contain the following kinds of information: irregular pronunciation, stress patterns, English glosses, examples of usage, verb aspect (including semelfactives, inceptives, and restrictives), government (in the broadest sense, including adjectives, nouns, and prepositions, as well as verbs), a certain amount of collocational information, animacy (for all nouns, including adjectives used as nouns), marginal case forms (Locative and Partitive), adverbial forms corresponding to adjectives, inserted vowels (including specifications with words requiring the prepositional variants vo, so, etc.), syntactic information in cases of sex and gender mismatch (e.g. vrach), and information on predicatives. In addition to predicatives of the type nel'z, predicatives in o (like xolodno) are listed separately from adjectives and adverbs; this highlights the difference between the three meanings that o-forms sometimes have: xolodno: (1) cold, (2) coldly, and (3) it is cold, feel cold. All predicatives are illustrated with sentences, most of which are translated into English.

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