Adjective reference

рабо́чий

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Sibilant spelling rule · ContextDependent

Long forms

Case, number, gender, and animacy

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

Long-form paradigm for рабочий
Case / profileMasculineFeminineNeuterPlural
Nominative рабо́чий рабо́чая рабо́чее рабо́чие
Genitive рабо́чего рабо́чей рабо́чего рабо́чих
Dative рабо́чему рабо́чей рабо́чему рабо́чим
Accusativeinanimate рабо́чий рабо́чую рабо́чее рабо́чие
Accusativeanimate рабо́чего рабо́чую рабо́чее рабо́чих
Instrumental рабо́чим рабо́чейAlso accepted: рабочеюLong feminine -ою/-ею is accepted but less frequent and often stylistically marked. рабо́чим рабо́чими
Prepositional рабо́чем рабо́чей рабо́чем рабо́чих

Family pattern

Why this family label fits

рабочийрабочаярабочегорабочие

sibilant

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

Masculine · Bothworker

Stress and pronunciation

Say the stored paradigm

StemFixed

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