Adjective reference
поле́зный
useful
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 | поле́зный | поле́зная | поле́зное | поле́зные |
| Genitive | поле́зного | поле́зной | поле́зного | поле́зных |
| Dative | поле́зному | поле́зной | поле́зному | поле́зным |
| Accusativeinanimate | поле́зный | поле́зную | поле́зное | поле́зные |
| Accusativeanimate | поле́зного | поле́зную | поле́зное | поле́зных |
| Instrumental | поле́зным | поле́знойAlso accepted: полезноюLong feminine -ою/-ею is accepted but less frequent and often stylistically marked. | поле́зным | поле́зными |
| Prepositional | поле́зном | поле́зной | поле́зном | поле́зных |
Family pattern
Why this family label fits
полезныйполезнаяполезногополезные
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 book is useful to children.
Word formation
Base and derivation
- Base type
- Unknown
Stress and pronunciation
Say the stored paradigm
StemFixed