Смешно - adjective or adverb?

[maceochi.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone,

When a noun in the nom. pl. is funny, and you use the word «смешно», is it more correct to say:
«Мне смешно русские переводы технической лексики»  or
«Мне смешны русские переводы технической лексики»?

My main problem here is that i don't know whether «смешно» is a short-form adj. or an adverb.

Of course, there is always the option of saying «мне смешно, как на русский переводили», but without rephrasing the sentence, which is correct - «смешно» or «смешны»?

The register is conversational.

Thanks to everyone in advance!

Comments

[emphiria.livejournal.com]

«Мне смешнЫ русские переводы технической лексики»

[maceochi.livejournal.com]

With the stress on the E?

[oryx_and_crake]

The second is correct.

Мне смешно is an impersonal phrase that does not take a subject.

alternatively you could say, for example:
Меня смешат/забавляют русские переводы технической лексики,
or
Мне (становится) смешно, когда я вижу русские переводы технической лексики.

[emphiria.livejournal.com]

"смешно" is adverb

[emphiria.livejournal.com]

no, stress on the Ы, also смешно stress on the О

[konstkaras.livejournal.com]

«Мне смешно русские переводы технической лексики» - it's wrong; an adverb "смешно" can be used only as an impersonal predicate, but not with subject "переводы".
«Мне смешны русские переводы технической лексики» looks grammatically right, but usualy "смешны" as predicate have meaning of defiance ("мне смешны ваши угрозы/претензии"), but not laughing.
Correctphrase may be:
Мне обычно смешно от русских пеереводов технической лексики.

[maceochi.livejournal.com]

Great, thank you!

[olgatallinn.livejournal.com]

И то, и другое.
Наречие: "Мне смешно, как на русский переводили" - правильно.
Краткое прилагательное: "Он смешон, она смешна, оно смешно, они смешны".
Правильный вариант: "Мне смешны русские переводы технической лексики".

[oryx_and_crake]

In theory, it could be a short form of an adverb. Она смешна, он смешон, они смешны, оно смешно. However, I don't think that смешно is often used that way.

[oryx_and_crake]

short form of an adjective, sorry

[kozavka-sonya.livejournal.com]

actually смешно belongs to a special group of words - слова категории состояния или предикативные наречия (http://rusgram.narod.ru/1645-1668.html § 1653), such as холодно, весело, хорошо (ex мне так весело, так холодно! и т д) so it's neither an adverb nor an adj usually. still it can be both of them in contexts like this:
Его попытки просто смешны - adj (coz the form of the adj depends completely on the form of the noun)
Он смешно рассказывает - adv (depends on the verb (i believe sounds strange in engl;)) and never changes its form).

in your case when you say мне it means that предикативное наречие is most likely to be after (coz you are talking about your condition), but предикативное наречие "смешно" in this combination is usually used without any extention (so even «мне смешно, как на русский переводили» sounds a bit clumsy), or sometimes like смешно отчего-то. so i suppose you'd better make an adv of it: мне смешно видеть, как переводят... or adj by omitting мне: для меня русские переводы смешны.

like that i think..

[pinky-the-cow.livejournal.com]

As a sidenote, I'd point out that deeming some things as "смешные" does not quite mean that those things are funny ones. More like "laughable" with the appropriate shifts of the meanings.
Thus, in your example it's rather a mocking way of giving a general diminutive characteristic.

"Этот недо-Петросян просто смешон, толком не может пошутить."
That half-baked-Petrosyan is simply a joke, he can't do the comedy right. (Petrosyan's a renowned russian comic, an embodiment of old and stupid humor for quite a share of population, yet he has an audience and popularity; the name is nearly a common noun, or meme)

[pinky-the-cow.livejournal.com]

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