Welcome to the seventh lesson in our beginner's course. Hopefully at this stage you're starting to feel like you have a solid understanding of most of the core grammar concepts you need to understand and communicate in basic Russian. As you've seen, there are a lot of declension tables and the like to eventually memorize. For now, though, don't worry about remembering everything. You'll find it most valuable to make sure you understand these different grammar concepts we've covered, picking up vocab on the way.
In this lesson, we're going to introduce ourselves to Russian adjectives. We'll cover how to use them and how they decline.
Go here for full declension tables of Russian adjectives.
Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. They agree with the gender, number, and case of the nouns or pronouns they are describing. When you see an adjective listed in a dictionary or on this site, it’ll be in the masculine nominate singular form.
Technically, there are two forms of each adjective: the long form and short form. In this lesson we’ll only be covering the much more common long form. We’ll also go through how to decline long form adjectives along with corresponding nouns.
Here are some examples of adjectives in action in Russian:
Just like we did with Russian nouns, have a look at our page that has the full declension tables of Russian adjectives. Again, don't worry about memorizing all the endings just yet. Still, do familiarize yourself with the adjectival endings across genders and cases.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nom | большой дом | большие дома |
Acc | большой дом | большие дома |
Gen | большого дома | больших домов |
Dat | большому дому | большим домам |
Instr | большим домом | большими домами |
Prep | большом доме | больших домах |
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nom | интересная книга | интересные книги |
Acc | интересную книгу | интересные книги |
Gen | интересной книги | интересных книг |
Dat | интересной книге | интересным книгам |
Instr | интересной книгой | интересными книгами |
Prep | интересной книге | интересных книгах |
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nom | красивое здание | красивые здания |
Acc | красивое здание | красивые здания |
Gen | красивого здания | красивых зданий |
Dat | красивому зданию | красивым зданиям |
Instr | красивым зданием | красивыми зданиями |
Prep | красивом здании | красивых зданиях |