"We need to wash the forks."

Translation: Нам надо помыть вилки.

[curt]

What about мыть? I've read that there's often flexibility in choice of aspect when it's in the infinitive. (i.e. мыть - 'spend some time washing forks' vs. помыть 'wash these forks & finish washing them').

[Saius]

You are right. The same with мыть should be accepted too

[shkrjab]

Audio is wrong!

Emphasis on the second letter "и"

[daadaadaaren]

what's the difference between нужно and нужен?

[Hongkong7]

You have нужен (m), нужна (f), нужно (n) and нужны (pl) matching gender and numerus of the subject. Here we have to use the neuter form, because нам нужно (note: 'we' in the dative case) translates to 'it is needful to us that ..." and the neutral 'it' is the so called formal subject.

[Lele957694]

What's the difference between нужно, надо and должен please ? And how do they decline ?

[magicunicorn917]

I swapped the last two words, вилки помыть, shouldn't this also be accepted?

[DeidarAndrei]

If вилки is the direct object, shouldnt it be in accusative case?

[Jimbird5]

Thats what I was wondering

[Nicholas696]

мы должны помыть вилки. Is also a right answer, i think...

[Theron126]

Is Надо нам also correct, or does it have to be Нам надо? I've seen надо мне before, so how do I know if надо has to come second?

[bright_flash]

If there is no particular context, it's better to use "Нам надо" though reversing the words is also gramatically possible.

[Theron126]

Thanks! Does that apply to other pronouns, e.g. should I say мне надо instead of надо мне?

Should надо нам be an accepted answer or would it sound odd enough that it's OK to mark it as wrong?

[bright_flash]

Yes, this applies to all other pronouns. You can use "Надо нам..." when there is a necessity to do something, but you're not fond of it: "Надо нам и вилки, и ножи помыть, а так не хочется..." "We need to cleans both forks and knives, but ~(we don't want it so much)". "Так не хочется" is an impersonal construction, btw, and I couldn't think of a really good analog in English. :)

[Theron126]

If it's for something you don't really like very much, then for washing dishes I definitely should use Надо нам :-)
Thanks for the explanation.

[deactivated user]

Hi! Please enlighten me regarding "нам" (what is this word grammarwise?) and why couldn't it be the personal pronoun "мы"? Regards from Madeira Island

[nortonblot]

Why not мы должен помыть вилки?

[shkrjab]

But "мы", "вы", "они" должны and "я", "ты", "он" должен.