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TwitterAdjectives describe or modify nouns or pronouns.
In Russian adjectives change their endings to indicate gender, number and case. The endings used for adjectives differ from those for nouns, so another set of endings must be learned. Fortunately, there are some similarities that make memorization easier.
Agreement
Adjectives agree in gender, number and case with the nouns they modify. If a word is, for example, a feminine singular noun in the dative case, then the adjective that modifies it will take the feminine singular dative ending for adjectives.
Position
Adjectives can directly precede the nouns they modify (that is, they can be in the attribute position), or they can be connected to the noun via the verb (that is, they can be in the predicative position). Some types of adjectives can take only one of these positions, while others can take both.
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