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Adjectives

Now why don't we learn Russian adjectives? Adjectives indicate attributes of objects (quality, characteristics, possesiveness): папина машина (a father's car), молодой человек (a young man) and agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case: увидел красивую девушку (saw a beautiful girl), звонил местным депутатам (called local deputies). In the Accusative case adjectives might have different forms depending on animation/inanimation of the noun: веду новый проект, вижу нового участника (I manage a new project, see a new participant). Normally these affixes are used to form adjectives: -н-, -оват, -еват-, -ист-, -к-, -ск- and others: весенний дождь (spring rain), американский (americal). Sound interesting? Let's learn moreSmile!

Russian Adverbs

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Russian advesbs

In this lessons we'll learn about Russian Adverbs. Adverbs are used to define the characteristics of adjectives and verbs : идти быстро (to walk fast), жить дружно (to live peacefully), прыгать высоко (to jump high).
Adverbs are normally formed from other parts of speech.  For emample :
  • from Nouns : глубина(depth) - вглубь (downward), ряд (row) - подряд (in a row);
  • from Adjectives : громкий (loud) - громко (loudly), японский (japanese) - по-японски (japanese or japanese way);
  • from Numerals: четыре (four) - вчетвером (four of us); первый (first) - во-первых (first of all);
  • from Pronouns: ничей (no one's) - вничью (draw ending)
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Declension of adjectives

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Declension of Russian adjectives

Like nouns Russian adjectives have 3 types of declension. The table below sums up the differences we need to know to tell one from the other:

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Comparative form of adjectives

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Comparative form of Russian adjectives

Only qualitative adjectives can have comparative forms: сильный, сильнее, самый сильный или сильнейший (strong, stronger, the strongest). Take a look at the table:

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Adjectives : quantative, possesive and relative

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Russian Adjectives : quantative, possesive and relative

Adjectives fall into 3 categories: qualitative, relative and possesive.

Qualitative denote different qualities of an object directly:

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Short and long forms of adjectives

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Russian adjectives

Russian adjectives have short and long forms. Remember that only qualitative adjectives may have both long and short forms (красивый- красив, быстрый- быстр). Although in modern Russian language the use of the long form is preferred, you will most likely come across the short form as well:

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