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Questions & Answers about Осенний парк красивый.
Why is there no word for "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb "to be" is skipped. You just put the subject (осенний парк) and the descriptive adjective (красивый) next to each other. Literally, it reads "Autumn park beautiful."
Both осенний and красивый describe the masculine noun парк. Why do their endings look different?
Both are masculine nominative adjectives, but осенний has a "soft" stem, so it takes the soft ending -ий. Красивый has a "hard" stem, so it takes the standard hard ending -ый. You will start to memorize which adjectives are soft or hard as you build your vocabulary.
If I want to say "I like the beautiful autumn park," how do I use the нравится structure from this lesson?
You would say Мне нравится красивый осенний парк. Because парк is singular, we use нравится, and the whole phrase красивый осенний парк stays in the Nominative case as the grammatical subject of the sentence.
Why does one adjective come before парк and one after?
Осенний (autumn) comes before the noun because it acts as part of the subject: "The autumn park". Красивый (beautiful) comes after the noun because it acts as the predicate (the new information being stated). If you said Красивый осенний парк, it would just mean "A beautiful autumn park" rather than a full sentence.