Pavel Iosad wråt:
> I wonder if things like
>
> takyj sobi nezalezhyj feodal
> such-NOM-MASC-SG refl.pron-DAT independent feudal.superior
>
> are of a similar kind.
>
> I'm not too sure of the correct translation, but I guess it would be
> something like 'an independent feudal superior of a certain kind'.
Yep. "Of a certain kind" is a very good equivalent.
> (Quoted from a translation of Bloch's _La société féodale_. In Russian
> the construction is colloquial, but in the book I'm quoting such
> examples abound, which seems to indicate it is literary in Ukrainian).
Indeed it is.
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