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.

 

Singular

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)

-ом

-ой

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)

-ем

-ей

 

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