Learn Hardcore Russian: Молодой учитель объясняет грамматику.

Gender: учитель is <a class="border-b border-dotted border-blue-400 dark:border-blue-500 cursor-pointer text-inherit no-underline" href="/grammar/russian/nouns/gender/overview">masculine
Number: singular
Case: <a class="border-b border-dotted border-blue-400 dark:border-blue-500 cursor-pointer text-inherit no-underline" href="/grammar/russian/cases/nominative/forms-and-subject">nominative (subject of the sentence)

Russian adjectives usually come before the noun they describe, unlike English where they can come after (in some cases, like “the teacher is young”).

Standard order: молодой учитель = young teacher
Putting it after (учитель молодой) is possible, but it sounds more like a separate statement:
- Он учитель, он молодой. – He is a teacher, he is young.
- Учитель молодой объясняет грамматику. – emphasises that the teacher (not the old one, for example) is young.

In neutral, dictionary-like phrases, the natural order is adjective + noun: молодой учитель.

Why is it молодой, not молодая or молодое?