Russian · Chapter 5 · Lesson 14 · Grammar primer
Adjectives and agreement
Gender, number and case all at once, and the endings are more predictable than the nouns you already survived.
The short version
Adjective endings copy the pronoun on
The oblique adjective endings are the pronoun he in disguise: yego and -ogo, yemu and -omu, im and -ym, ikh and -ykh. If you can say him, to him and with them, you already know most of the Russian adjective chart. And the g in -ogo is pronounced v.
Ya vizhu novogo druga.
Word order turns a phrase into a sentence
Because the present tense of to be is invisible, the position of the adjective does its job. Bolshoy dom, adjective first, is a big house. Dom bolshoy, adjective second, is a whole sentence: the house is big.
Dom bolshoy.
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