Adjective reference
ну́жный
needed
Long forms
Case, number, gender, and animacy
These are explicit stored profiles. Accusative animate and inanimate forms are kept separate.
| Case / profile | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ну́жный | ну́жная | ну́жное | ну́жные |
| Genitive | ну́жного | ну́жной | ну́жного | ну́жных |
| Dative | ну́жному | ну́жной | ну́жному | ну́жным |
| Accusativeinanimate | ну́жный | ну́жную | ну́жное | ну́жные |
| Accusativeanimate | ну́жного | ну́жную | ну́жное | ну́жных |
| Instrumental | ну́жным | ну́жнойAlso accepted: нужноюLong feminine -ою/-ею is accepted but less frequent and often stylistically marked. | ну́жным | ну́жными |
| Prepositional | ну́жном | ну́жной | ну́жном | ну́жных |
Family pattern
Why this family label fits
нужныйнужнаянужногонужные
hard
Short forms
Predicate gender and number
Comparison
Comparative and superlative strategies
Stored comparative form
Available where the stored lexical restrictions permit it.
The agreeing adjective form follows самый.
A formal or neutral analytic strategy where licensed.
Predicate use
Long and short choices
- Attributive long
- Allowed
- Predicate long nominative
- Allowed
- Predicate long instrumental
- Allowed
- Predicate short
- Allowed
- Secondary predicate
- Allowed
Government
Verified complement patterns
The student needs the book.
Word formation
Base and derivation
- Base type
- Unknown
Stress and pronunciation
Say the stored paradigm
StemFixed