Adjective reference

зи́мний

winter

Genuinely soft ยท 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 зимний
Case / profileMasculineFeminineNeuterPlural
Nominative зи́мний зи́мняя зи́мнее зи́мние
Genitive зи́мнего зи́мней зи́мнего зи́мних
Dative зи́мнему зи́мней зи́мнему зи́мним
Accusativeinanimate зи́мний зи́мнюю зи́мнее зи́мние
Accusativeanimate зи́мнего зи́мнюю зи́мнее зи́мних
Instrumental зи́мним зи́мнейAlso accepted: зимнеюLong feminine -ою/-ею is accepted but less frequent and often stylistically marked. зи́мним зи́мними
Prepositional зи́мнем зи́мней зи́мнем зи́мних

Family pattern

Why this family label fits

зимнийзимняязимнегозимние

soft

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

Stress and pronunciation

Say the stored paradigm

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