An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun...
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Look up adjectival in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adjectival may refer to: Anything related to or serving as an adjective Adjectival noun (Japanese)...
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An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective. Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology...
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German adjectives come before the noun, as in English, and are usually not capitalized. However, as in French and other Indo-European languages, they are...
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nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. In the rich and the poor, the adjectives rich and poor...
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Adjectival noun may refer to: Adjectival noun (Japanese), also called adjectival or na-adjective Noun adjunct, a noun that qualifies another noun, like...
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Modal adjectives are adjectives, such as likely, probable and necessary, that express modality, i.e., possibility, necessity, or contingency. Modal adjectives...
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Police, Adjective (Romanian: Polițist, Adjectiv) is a 2009 Romanian drama film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The movie focuses on policeman Cristi,...
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descriptions of the Japanese language, an adjectival noun, adjectival, or na-adjective is a noun that can function as an adjective by taking the particle 〜な -na....
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A postpositive adjective or postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as...
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This article deals with Japanese equivalents of English adjectives. In Japanese, nouns and verbs can modify nouns, with nouns taking the 〜の particles when...
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Spanish adjectives are similar to those in most other Indo-European languages. They are generally postpositive, and they agree in both gender and number...
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Predicative expression (redirect from Predicative adjective)
expressions are adjectives and nominals: The idea was ridiculous. — Predicative adjective over the subject. He seems nice. — Predicative adjective over the subject...
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Latin declension (redirect from Latin adjective)
altered to show grammatical case, number and gender. Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension...
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eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been...
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important, and right. Adjectives head adjective phrases, and the most typical members function as modifiers in noun phrases. Most adjectives either inflect for...
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following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something...
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orthography, the term proper adjective is used to mean adjectives that take initial capital letters, and common adjective to mean those that do not. For...
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Demonstrative (redirect from Demonstrative adjective)
or was said earlier. Demonstrative constructions include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which qualify nouns (as in Put that coat...
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Lithuanian language (redirect from Lithuanian adjective)
u-stem adjectives still existed, e.g. rūgštùs 'sour': No u-stem remnants existed in the dative singular and locative plural. Definite adjectives, originally...
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Scotch is an adjective in English, meaning "of or from Scotland". Many Scots dislike the term Scotch and some consider it offensive. The modern usage...
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The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants...
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An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Adverbs...
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Comparison (grammar) (redirect from Comparative adjective)
Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate...
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Attributive verb (redirect from Verbal adjective)
grammatically like ordinary adjectives, with no verb-like features) may be distinguished as deverbal adjectives. An example of a verbal adjective with verb-like features...
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Dependent clause (redirect from Adjective clause)
Indo-European languages, a relative clause, also called an adjectival clause or an adjective clause, meets three requirements: Like all dependent clauses...
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The following is a list of adjectival forms of subcontinental regions in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants...
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Chinese adjectives (simplified Chinese: 形容词; traditional Chinese: 形容詞; pinyin: xíngróngcí) differ from adjectives in English in that they can be used...
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Red (redirect from Red (political adjective))
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately...
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English compound (redirect from Hyphenated adjective)
are noun phrases (i.e. nominal phrases) that include a noun modified by adjectives or noun adjuncts. Due to the English tendency toward conversion, the two...
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