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Questions & Answers about Весенний дождь тёплый.
How would I use the words here to say I like spring rain for this lesson?
You would say Мне нравится весенний дождь. In Russian, the thing you like is actually the grammatical subject. Since дождь is a singular noun, we use the singular verb нравится. The phrase весенний дождь stays in the Nominative case, exactly as it appears in this sentence.
The word дождь ends in a soft sign (ь). Does that mean it is feminine?
Not always! Nouns ending in a soft sign can be either masculine or feminine, so you usually have to memorize their gender. But in this sentence, you can easily tell дождь is masculine because the adjectives describing it (весенний and тёплый) both use masculine endings.
Why do the two masculine adjectives have different endings (весенний vs тёплый)?
Where is the word for is in this sentence?
Russian does not use a word for am, is, or are in the present tense. You simply state the subject (весенний дождь) followed immediately by the adjective describing it (тёплый).