Для теста нужны мука, молоко и дрожжи.

You need flour, milk, and yeast for the dough.

Breakdown of Для теста нужны мука, молоко и дрожжи.

• и: and
• для: for
• нужный: necessary
• молоко: the milk

Questions & Answers about Для теста нужны мука, молоко и дрожжи.

Why is теста in the genitive case?

Because the preposition для always takes the genitive.

So:

• для = for
• тесто = dough
• для теста = for the dough

The dictionary form is тесто, and its genitive singular form is теста.

A learner might notice that теста could also come from тест (test), but in this sentence the meaning is clearly dough, not test.

Why is it нужны, not нужно, нужен, or нужна?

Нужны agrees with the things that are needed: мука, молоко и дрожжи.

Since that is a plural list, Russian uses the plural form:

• нужен = needed (masculine singular)
• нужна = needed (feminine singular)
• нужно = needed (neuter singular)
• нужны = needed (plural)

Even though the nouns have different genders:

• мука — feminine
• молоко — neuter
• дрожжи — plural-only

the whole group is treated as plural, so нужны is the correct form.