Thread: Some Nouns Ending with “ь”

Originally Posted by iCake

Yes, you're right to that is awkward to say просторная щель without a proper context, still you can say like that, for example:

You want to hide somewhere, but you don't know where, and you ran across a big gap in a rock (or something else, doesn't matter), and you understand that you can fit in that gap nicely and a good amount of space still would be between your body and the surrounding edges of the gap. In other words, that won't be a tight squeeze for you, and просторный is the exact opposite to tight regarding a space.

Опять же, в таком случае я бы сказала щель оказалась достаточно вместительной для чего-то.
Я вижу в Яндексе примеры с просторной щелью, но я всё равно против такого употребления.

Originally Posted by Lampada

Опять же, в таком случае я бы сказала щель оказалась достаточно вместительной для чего-то.
Я вижу в Яндексе примеры с просторной щелью, но я всё равно против такого употребления.

I don't see any reason to say all those words if you can just say просторный. That word refers to the space just partially, it refers mostly to the feeling you have.

Haven't you ever heard or used this expression: чувствовать простор, чувствовать себя просторно?

That's why it would be rediculous to use it like that: - Камню будет просторно там - that's a stone! It doesn't feel anything
But it would be just fine to say like this: - Вове будет там просторно - Vova is a person, he can feel

Given the above, I don't see why if someone feels простор in the gap, you can't say that the gap is просторный. But, yes, that gap can't be просторный for a senseless stone, for the stone it would be just вместительная or широкая as you said above