Quote Originally Posted by Valda View Post

Oh, so if I wanna say "we need food" (urgent) it would be "мы нуждаемся в пище" [<-prepostional] ?
that's exactly right

a sidenote: many Russian speakers learning Hebrew have trouble remembering that мне нужно is not zarich li, but ani zarich, because in Hebrew zarich is related to the subject, whereas in Russian нужно is related to the object