The Universal Genitive Plural Ending: -ih
When you describe plural nouns in the genitive case, adjective agreement becomes incredibly simple. Unlike the singular forms which change depending on gender, the genitive plural adjective ending is always -ih for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns.
- različit (different) becomes različitih
- nov (new) becomes novih
Expressing Quantities
You already know that we use the genitive plural after words expressing indefinite quantities. When using words like puno (a lot), mnogo (many), nekoliko (several), and većina (the majority), any adjectives describing the nouns will take the -ih ending.
Numbers Five and Above
Just like indefinite quantities, numbers from five and up (5, 6, 10, 100...) also require the following noun and its adjectives to be in the genitive plural.
Describing Groups and Belonging
The genitive is frequently used to express "of [something]" when talking about parts of a whole, categories, attributes, or compositions of groups.
Multiple Adjectives
If a plural noun is described by more than one adjective in the genitive case, the rule applies uniformly: every adjective in the list takes the -ih ending.