Russian Adjectives

Russian Adjectives are used just like in English to describe qualities to nouns, but they differ than English when it comes to their agreement with nouns. Russian adjectives must agree with the noun they modify in gender and number, also adjectives must agree in the case as well, adjectives may change their endings in each case of the six cases depending on which case the noun is using.

So to have the proper form of an adjective, you should know what case/ gender/ number is used by the noun, then form the adjective accordingly, which means that if the noun is in the accusative feminine singular, you will have to do the same with adjective.

Below is a table of a very common ending which many adjectives take:

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Endings
Nominative	ый	ая	ое	ые
Accusative	Nom or Gen	ую	Nom or Gen	Nom or Gen
Genitive	ого	ой	ого	ых
Dative	ому	ой	ому	ым
Prepositional	ом	ой	ом	ых
Instrumental	ым	ой	ым	ыми

This is a list of adjectives:

List of Russian Adjectives
bad	плохой		long, tall	длинный
big, large	большой		loud	громкий
cheap	дешёвый		low, short	низкий
clean	чистый		narrow	узкий
deep	глубокий		near	близкий
difficult	трудный		old	старый
dirty	грязный		poor	бедный
early	ранний		quiet	тихий
expensive	дорогой		rich	богатый
far	далёкий		shallow	мелкий
fat	толстый		short	короткий
good	хороший		simple	простой
hard	твёрдый		soft	мягкий
heavy	тяжёлый		strong	крепкий
high, tall	высокий		thin	тонкий
late	поздний		weak	слабый
light, easy	лёгкий		wide	широкий
small	маленький		young	молодой

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