Breakdown of Для проекта нам нужны сохранённые документы.
мы
we
документ
document
проект
the project
нужен
needed (нужен, нужна, нужны)
для
for
сохранить
to save (keep, preserve, data)
Questions & Answers about Для проекта нам нужны сохранённые документы.
How is the participle сохранённые formed from the verb?
It comes from the perfective verb сохранить (to save). For verbs ending in -ить, we drop the ending and add -енный or -ённый to the stem. Because it describes the plural noun документы, it takes the plural adjective ending -ые, becoming сохранённые.
Why does сохранённые have an ё instead of an е in the suffix?
When building past passive participles from -ить verbs, the suffix is often stressed, which changes е to ё. You will see this pattern often: решить (to decide) becomes решённый, and сохранить (to save) becomes сохранённый.
Why is "we need" translated as нам нужны?
Why isn't сохранённые документы in the accusative case?
Because of how the нужен construction works. The things you need are the actual grammatical subject of the sentence, so they must take the nominative case. Since документы is nominative, the participle сохранённые acts like an adjective and must also be nominative to match it.
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