The great and powerful Russian language is rich in words that baffle many of its speakers.
Especially when it comes to spelling, which “throws up” such rules that some people’s heads spin.
For example, when we are dealing with very similar participles and adjectives that differ only in the number of letters “n” in the suffixes.
The difficulty is that these kinds of adjectives and participles answer the same question ("what kind?") and denote a feature of an object. But they are written differently.
A clear example of this is the words “wounded” (adjective) and “wounded” (participle).
Without context, it is simply impossible to determine the part of speech in this case. Therefore, dependent words act as “hints” in the sentence.
It is worth remembering a simple truth: if a word can be used to ask questions such as “from where?”, “where to?”, “where?”, “what?”, “what kind?”, “how?”, “to whom?”, it is a participle, and we write it with two “n”.
A soldier wounded (where?) in the leg. Or a soldier wounded (when?) in the morning. Or a soldier wounded (where?) in battle. And so on.
If there are no dependent words, we are dealing with an adjective, which we write with one “n”.
A wounded soldier, a wounded bird, a wounded animal, etc.
The situation is similar with the words loaded and loaded, fried and fried, written and written, cut and cut, painted and painted, knitted and knitted, ironed and ironed, etc.
Earlier it became known what words and phrases self-confident people say.
