Adjective reference
сло́жный
complex
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 | сло́жный | сло́жная | сло́жное | сло́жные |
| Genitive | сло́жного | сло́жной | сло́жного | сло́жных |
| Dative | сло́жному | сло́жной | сло́жному | сло́жным |
| Accusativeinanimate | сло́жный | сло́жную | сло́жное | сло́жные |
| Accusativeanimate | сло́жного | сло́жную | сло́жное | сло́жных |
| Instrumental | сло́жным | сло́жнойAlso accepted: сложноюLong feminine -ою/-ею is accepted but less frequent and often stylistically marked. | сло́жным | сло́жными |
| Prepositional | сло́жном | сло́жной | сло́жном | сло́жных |
Family pattern
Why this family label fits
сложныйсложнаясложногосложные
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
Word formation
Base and derivation
- Base type
- Unknown
Stress and pronunciation
Say the stored paradigm
StemFixed