Category:Russian adjectives with irregular short stem

Russian adjectives where the stem of the short forms is irregular compared with the stem of the remaining forms. Examples are солёный (soljónyj, salty) (short forms со́лон, солона́, со́лоно, солоны́/со́лоны); ма́ленький (málenʹkij, small) (short forms мал, мала́, мало́, малы́); and большо́й (bolʹšój, big) (short forms вели́к, велика́, велико́, велики́. (In the latter two cases, the short forms come from the synonymous adjectives ма́лый (mályj) and вели́кий (velíkij), respectively.)