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Russian
Etymology
шат(а́ть) (šat(átʹ)) + -кий (-kij)
Pronunciation
Adjective
ша́ткий • (šátkij) (rare/awkward comparative (по)ша́тче)
- shaky, unsteady, rickety
1859, Иван Гончаров, “Часть 1, Глава 1”, in Обломов (роман); English translation from C. J. Hogarth, transl., Oblomov, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1915:Утончённый вкус не удовольствовался бы этими тяжёлыми, неграциозными стульями красного дерева, шаткими этажерками.- Utončónnyj vkus ne udovolʹstvovalsja by etimi tjažólymi, negracioznymi stulʹjami krasnovo dereva, šatkimi etažerkami.
- Taste of a really refined nature would never have remained satisfied with such ponderous, ungainly redwood chairs, with such rickety whatnots.
- precarious, wavering, weak, unsteady
- ша́ткое положе́ние ― šátkoje položénije ― precarious/shaky position
- ни ша́тко ни ва́лко ― ni šátko ni válko ― ≈1) neither good nor bad; middling well; 2) slowly; at a snail's pace
Declension
Declension of ша́ткий (short class aʹ*)
Derived terms