"We need to wash the forks."
Translation:Нам надо помыть вилки.
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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').
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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.
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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?
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If there is no particular context, it's better to use "Нам надо" though reversing the words is also possible gramatically.
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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?
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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. :)
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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.
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What's the difference between нужно, надо and должен please ? And how do they decline ?
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I swapped the last two words, вилки помыть, shouldn't this also be accepted?
