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Russian often expresses need with the pattern кому (dative) + нужен/нужна/нужно/нужны + что (nominative).
So Мне нужна информация literally works like To me is needed information.
You can say Я нуждаюсь в информации (more formal/bookish) or Я хочу информацию (sounds blunt; more natural: Я хочу получить информацию / Мне нужна информация).
In this construction, the person who “needs” something is treated as an indirect experiencer/recipient, so it takes dative:
- мне = to me
- тебе = to you
- ему/ей = to him/her
It’s the standard pattern for нужен/нужна/нужно/нужны.
Нужен/нужна/нужно/нужны agrees in gender and number with the thing that is needed (the grammatical “subject”):
- информация is feminine singular, so: нужна
Compare: - Мне нужен паспорт (паспорт = masculine)
- Мне нужно время (время = neuter)
- Мне нужны документы (documents = plural)
Grammatically, yes: информация is in the nominative, and the predicate нужна agrees with it.
Even though in English we think “I” is the subject (“I need…”), Russian structures it differently: information is needed (to me).
The preposition о/об normally requires the prepositional case (also called “locative” in some contexts):
- о расписании = about the schedule
Here расписание changes to расписании (prepositional singular).
When one noun specifies another (a “schedule of buses”), Russian commonly uses genitive for the second noun:
- расписание чего? → автобусов (genitive plural)
It means bus schedule / schedule of buses (i.e., bus timetables in general).
Because it’s talking about the timetable for buses as a category / multiple routes, not one specific bus.
If you meant one bus (less common), you could say:
- о расписании автобуса = about the schedule of a (particular) bus
But the natural real-life request is usually plural: расписание автобусов.
Yes, word order is flexible and depends on emphasis:
- Мне нужна информация о расписании автобусов. (neutral)
- Информация о расписании автобусов мне нужна. (emphasizes information)
- О расписании автобусов мне нужна информация. (emphasizes the topic; a bit heavier stylistically)
The basic grammar (cases and agreement) stays the same.
Sometimes, yes—if it’s obvious who needs it:
- Нужна информация о расписании автобусов. = “(I/We) need information about the bus schedule.”
But including мне is clearer and more polite in many situations.
Key stresses: Мне нужнá информáция о расписáнии автобýсов.
Notes:
- мне sounds like mnye (one syllable).
- нужна has stress on the last syllable: noozh-NÁ.
- расписании stress: ras-pee-SÁ-nee-ee (the ending -ии is two vowels but often sounds close together in fast speech).
- автобусов stress: av-TO-boo-saf (final -ов often sounds like -əf in unstressed position).