Russian · Chapter 3 · Lesson 3 · Grammar primer
Adjectives
Prescribed by the Edexcel specification.
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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