Questions & Answers about Сильный ветер пугает меня ночью.
Because it has to agree with ветер.
- ветер is masculine
- singular
- nominative case because it is the subject
So the adjective also becomes masculine singular nominative: сильный.
This is the basic agreement pattern in Russian:
- сильный ветер = strong wind
- сильная буря = strong storm
- сильное чувство = strong feeling
- сильные ветры = strong winds
Because ветер is the subject of the sentence — the thing doing the action.
In Сильный ветер пугает меня ночью, the wind is what frightens/scares me, so ветер is in the nominative.
A very literal breakdown is:
- Сильный ветер = strong wind
- пугает = frightens / scares
- меня = me
- ночью = at night
So the structure is basically:
[Subject] + [verb] + [object] + [time expression]