можно
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Polish można with a change of the final morpheme, either to avoid an ending that would be anomalous for an adverb, or because of orthographic hypercorrection rooted in vowel reduction, or both. Synchronically мог- (mog-) + -ный (-nyj) + -о (-o) (but the form **мо́жный does not exist, unlike Polish możny). Compare Ukrainian можна (možna).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmoʐnə]
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Predicative
мо́жно • (móžno) (impersonal, invariable)
Related terms
- мочь (močʹ)
Antonyms
- нельзя́ (nelʹzjá)
Usage notes
- The forms немо́жно or не мо́жно are not used in standard Russian. To negate мо́жно, use нельзя́ (nelʹzjá), which doesn't have a positive form "льзя", or невозмо́жно (nevozmóžno).
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