Adjectives

For example, here are some adjectives: And here are some examples of adjectives inflected to agree with nouns: Notice that the adjectives undergo the same sorts of stem changes when they are inflected as nouns do.

This means that in English, adjectives pertaining to size precede adjectives pertaining to age ("little old", not "old little"), which in turn generally precede adjectives pertaining to color ("old white", not "white old").

If it is modified by adjectives that follow the noun, the regular rules apply to the adjectives.

Adjectives Adjectives agree in gender and number with their nouns, for example: s nfr "(the) good man" and st nfrt "(the) good woman".

Adjectives Adjectives in Finnish are inflected in exactly the same way as nouns, and an adjective must agree in number and case with the noun it is modifying.

Adjectives All adjectives end in -i, but this may be dropped if it is easy enough to pronounce and no confusion will be caused.

Adjectives as collective plurals Certain adjectives can be used, uninflected, as plurals denoting people of the designated type.

Adjectives that come after copular verbs are predicate adjectives, and nouns that come after linking verbs are predicate nouns.

Adjectives, verbs, and pronouns agree with their subjects' or antecedents' numbers, but only have a two-way distinction between singular and plural; dual nouns entail plural adjectives, verbs, and pronouns.

Because adjectives can be used as complete predicates, many words used to indicate tense in verbs (see Verbs:Tense below) may be used to describe adjectives.

Comparatives and superlatives of –er adjectives Adjectives (in the third and first and second declensions) that have masculine nominative singular forms ending in –er have different forms.

Comparatives and superlatives of –lis adjectives Some third declension adjectives with two endings in –lis in the sexed nominative singular have irregular superlative forms.

Comparison of adjectives main In many languages, some adjectives are comparable.

Determiners main Linguists today distinguish determiners from adjectives, considering them to be two separate parts of speech (or lexical categories ), but formerly determiners were considered to be adjectives in some of their uses.

First and second declension adjectives' adverbs First and second declension adjectives' adverbs are formed by adding –ē onto their bases.

First and second declension –r adjectives Some first and second declension adjectives' masculine form end in –er.

First and second –īus genitive adjectives Nine first and second declension adjectives are irregular in the genitive and the dative in all genders.

However, Bantu languages are well known for having only a small closed class of adjectives, and new adjectives are not easily derived.

In English, the class of pronouns is closed, whereas the class of adjectives is open, since an infinite number of adjectives can be constructed from verbs (e.g. "saddened") or nouns (e.g. with the -like suffix, as in "noun-like").

Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives.