Adjective reference

про́шлый

past/previous

Transparent hard · Temporal

Long forms

Case, number, gender, and animacy

These are explicit stored profiles. Accusative animate and inanimate forms are kept separate.

Long-form paradigm for прошлый
Case / profileMasculineFeminineNeuterPlural
Nominative про́шлый про́шлая про́шлое про́шлые
Genitive про́шлого про́шлой про́шлого про́шлых
Dative про́шлому про́шлой про́шлому про́шлым
Accusativeinanimate про́шлый про́шлую про́шлое про́шлые
Accusativeanimate про́шлого про́шлую про́шлое про́шлых
Instrumental про́шлым про́шлойAlso accepted: прошлоюLong feminine -ою/-ею is accepted but less frequent and often stylistically marked. про́шлым про́шлыми
Prepositional про́шлом про́шлой про́шлом про́шлых

Family pattern

Why this family label fits

прошлыйпрошлаяпрошлогопрошлые

hard

Predicate use

Long and short choices

Attributive long
Allowed
Predicate long nominative
Allowed
Predicate long instrumental
Allowed
Predicate short
NotNormallyUsed
Secondary predicate
Allowed

Word formation

Base and derivation

Base type
Unknown

Adjective used as a noun

Substantivised uses

Neuter · SingularOnlythe past

Stress and pronunciation

Say the stored paradigm

StemFixed

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