How to do it correctly: envious or enviable

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

In this word, only one variant of stress is allowed.

Although in colloquial speech you can often hear the pronunciation variant with the stressed first syllable, from the point of view of the orthoepic norm of the Russian literary language, Gramota.ru is correct, checking the word: it is enviable to speak only enviously.

The adverb was enviably formed from the adjective Gramota.ru, checking the word: enviable enviable, meaning something wonderful, very good that you can wish for yourself: an enviable groom, an enviable bachelor, an enviable job.

And despite the direct association with the noun envy, in related words the stress is static and falls on the second syllable: envy, but envy, envious, envious, envious.

The variant is obviously considered unacceptable even in colloquial speech. Specialized publications devoted to the complexities of Russian orthoepy draw the readers' attention to this. The note that it is categorically not recommended to speak vividly can be seen, for example, in the reference book "Russian word stress" "Russian word stress" by M. V. Zarva and the orthoepic dictionary Orthoepic dictionary I. L. Reznichenko I. L. Reznichenko.

To memorize the normative pronunciation, you can learn a humorous poem:

Marusya is pretty -

Lida is jealous.