The Prepositional Singular of Adjectives
Предложный падеж имён прилагательных (ед. число)
The Russian adjective changes according to gender, number and case.
An adjective qualifies its head-noun and agrees with it, i.e. it has the same gender, number and case.
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Masculine о каком? | Neuter о каком? | Feminine о какой? |
Adjectives whose stem ends in a hard consonant take the endings -ом, -ой Adjectives of all three genders with the stem in ж, ш, ч, щ take the same endings as the adjectives with the stem in a hard consonant, if the ending is stressed. | ||
о новом большом (доме) | о новом большом (здании) | о новой большой (комнате) |
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Adjectives whose stem ends in a soft consonant take the endings -ем, -ей The ending of adjectives with a soft stem is always unstressed: о зимнем, о зимней. Adjectives with the stem in ж, ш, ч, щ take the same ending as the adjectives with the stem in a soft consonant, if the ending is unstressed. | ||
о хорошем зимнем (дне) | о хорошем зимнем (утре) | о хорошей зимней (ночи) |
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