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[upthera44.livejournal.com]

Two  Russian langauge questions for ya: 

1. The verb реагировать to my knowledge has two perfective forms: отреагировать, прореагировать. How do they differ? Which is better to use in past and future tenses (or is the imperfective--реагировать-- usually used since reacting is in itself sort of a process)? Thanks!

2. If you want to strengthen an adjective by saying "really," "completely" or "very" -- for instance: he is very smart; that is completely wrong, etc.-- it seems you can use various adverbs to modify the adjectives.  The main ones I'm aware of are очень, совсем, соверщенно...  Are these usually interchangable and sound ok with most adjectives? Here are some examples off the top of my head:  

совсем правельно
совершенно правельно
абсолютно правельно

это--совершенно глупо
это--абсолютно глупо
это--совсем глупо

Comments

[stella-v.livejournal.com]

1) правИльно
2) Usual examples:
=> совершенно правильно/абсолютно правильно (also you can say верно instead правильно in this case)
=> очень (=very) глупо/на редкость (=rarely) глупо/удивительно (=amazingly) глупо (here совершенно etc. looks a bit strange, perhaps more official than it should be...)

[therox.livejournal.com]

1) The word "реагировать" has one meaning of answer for an action (отреагировать), and other - meaning of chemical Interaction of two substances (прореагировать).
2) Совершенно верно
Очень глупо

[merry1978.livejournal.com]

The verb прореагировать (c) is mostly used in the context of chemical reactions.

Найти объем NO, способного полностью прореагировать с 28,8 л кислорода... (a chemical problem from a textbook)

While speaking of somebody's reaction to someone else's actions or words, it's also possible, but it is better (and more common) to use отреагировать (на):

Власти никак не отреагировали на это заявление.
Он отреагировал на мою просьбу с запозданием.

In any case, it's really formal and sounds bureaucratic-like, прореагировать even more than отреагировать. It's way better to use ответить (to answer), обращать внимание (to pay attention) or не обращать внимания (not pay attention, ignore) or something else of the kind, according to situation.

disagree

[mouseamouse.livejournal.com]

совсем НЕправильно
совершенно ВЕРНО
NOT абсолютно правильно

NOT совершенно глупо
NOT абсолютно глупо
correctly is -- совсем глупо
the best -- ОЧЕНЬ глупо

[alamar.livejournal.com]

"Прореагировать" can also me used to mean 'take measures'.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

hey, I've seen government officials who refuse to talk this way lest they would be considered completely stuck-up.

[no-access.livejournal.com]

there is the third form "среагировать"; the second one is being used in chemistry only.

"совсем правильно", "абсолютно глупо", "совершенно глупо" does not seem to me to be correct.

and you should type "правильно", "правельно" is not correct spelling

[wire-shock.livejournal.com]

совсем правильно - one can't say that, although "не совсем правильно" is possible!

совершенно правильно & абсолютно правильно are all right

это совершенно глупо - sounds unnatural to me but I don't insist

это абсолютно глупо - one can't say that

это совсем глупо - possible, means the very worst of idiocies