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Questions & Answers about Испанский фильм хороший.
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb "to be" (am, is, are) is almost always left out. You just say the subject and the describing word right next to each other. So instead of "The Spanish film is good", you literally just say Испанский фильм хороший (Spanish film good).
Why do both испанский and хороший end in -ий?
Both of these words are adjectives describing the masculine noun фильм. In Russian, adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. The ending -ий is a common ending for masculine adjectives in their basic dictionary form.
Could I use хорошо instead of хороший here?
How do we know it means "the" Spanish film if there is no word for "the"?
Russian does not use articles like "a", "an", or "the". You simply figure out which one is meant from the context of the conversation. If you really needed to point out "this" specific Spanish film, you could add the word этот (this) before испанский.