Questions & Answers about Тест сложный.
Stress falls on the first syllable of both words:
- ТЕст [tʲest]
- СЛОжный [ˈsloʐnɨj]
• сложный – “complex,” “complicated” (things with many parts or steps)
• трудный – “difficult,” “hard” (requiring effort or skill)
• тяжёлый – “heavy” (physically heavy) or metaphorically “burdensome”
E.g.
– сложный тест (a test with tricky, multi-step questions)
– трудный экзамен (an exam that demands a lot of preparation)
– тяжёлый рюкзак (a physically heavy backpack)
You have two main options:
1) Intonation only: Тест сложный? (raise your voice at the end)
2) Add the particle ли: Сложный ли тест?
Both mean “Is the test difficult?”
Insert the demonstrative этот and keep the adjective agreeing in gender/number/case:
Этот тест сложный.
Here’s the singular declension of тест (inanimate masculine):
• Nominative (who?/what?) – тест
• Genitive (of whom?/of what?) – теста
• Dative (to whom?/to what?) – тесту
• Accusative (whom?/what?) – тест
• Instrumental (with whom?/with what?) – тестом
• Prepositional (about whom?/about what?) – в тесте