сладкий

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Russian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic сладъкъ (sladŭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *soldъkъ. See also the dialectal Russian соло́дкий (solódkij), a doublet.

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Adjective

сла́дкий (sládkij) (comparative (по)сла́ще, superlative сладча́йший, diminutive сла́денький)

  1. sweet (having a pleasant taste)
  2. sugary

Declension

See also

Basic tastes in Russian · вку́сы (vkúsy) (layout · text)
сла́дкий (sládkij) ки́слый (kíslyj) солёный (soljónyj) го́рький (górʹkij) о́стрый (óstryj) пика́нтный (pikántnyj)

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “солодкий”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress