In this article, we will talk about what antonyms are and how they are used.
The Russian language is not in vain called great and powerful, since it has a lot of rules, parts of speech, and so on. Many often ask the question - what are antonyms? Let's figure out this issue and find out what kind of speech these are and how to recognize them.
What are antonyms in Russian?
Antonyms are the words of one part of speech that have the opposite meaning.
In order to more accurately understand what the meaning of this term is better to turn to its appearance. A word appeared "Antonyms" in Greek and translated as "The opposite name". Simply, then the opposite words are obtained.
Unlike synonyms, antonyms have the exact opposite, and not similar meaning with each other. For example, fast-honey, morning-maid, large-small.
As a rule, antonyms are words belonging to one part of speech and answering one question. They allow you to characterize objects, signs, phenomena and indicate one quality, only the opposite. Of these words, antonymic couples are consisting.
Below we suggest you familiarize yourself with examples of various pairs:
Video: Learning Antonyms
