Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet ADJECTIVES

Definition av ADJECTIVES

1. böjningsform av adjective

Exempel på hur man kan använda ADJECTIVES i en mening

• Each part of speech has a characteristic ending: nouns end with ‑o; adjectives with ‑a; present‑tense indicative verbs with ‑as, and so on.
• A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
• Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension.
• Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns.
• In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
• A number of Finnish grammarians classify the prolative form as an adverb because it does not require agreement with adjectives like other Finnish cases.
• Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most nouns the plural is pronounced the same as the singular even if spelled differently); adjectives, for number and gender (masculine or feminine) of their nouns; personal pronouns and a few other pronouns, for person, number, gender, and case; and verbs, for tense, aspect, mood, and the person and number of their subjects.
• In contrast to most other Indo-European languages, English does not retain grammatical gender and most of its nouns, adjectives and pronouns are therefore not gender-specific.
• The prefix un- applies to adjectives (healthy → unhealthy) and some verbs (do → undo) but rarely to nouns.
• Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood.
• Words of other types, such as verbs, adjectives and pronouns, also frequently have distinct plural forms, which are used in agreement with the number of their associated nouns.
• The second-person (singular and plural) possessive adjective your is used as a form of address (that is, when speaking directly to the person(s) entitled to the style(s)); the third-person possessive adjectives his/her (singular) and their (plural) are used as forms of reference (that is, when speaking about the person(s) entitled to the style(s)).
• The dual number existed in Proto-Indo-European and persisted in many of its descendants, such as Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, which have dual forms across nouns, verbs, and adjectives; Gothic, which used dual forms in pronouns and verbs; and Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which used dual forms in its pronouns.
• Words that are not function words are called content words (or open class words, lexical words, or autosemantic words) and include nouns, most verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs, although some adverbs are function words (like then and why).
• Nouns, adjectives, and verbs in the Indo-European languages with this vowel are thematic, and those without it are athematic.
• In English, simple adjectives are usually used as premodifiers, with occasional exceptions such as galore (which always appears after the noun, coming from Irish in which most adjectives are postmodifiers) or the adjectives immemorial and martial in the phrases time immemorial and court martial (the latter comes from French, where most adjectives are postmodifiers).
• The etymology of "Flaccus" is unknown, but it is similar to other adjectives describing deformities of the body, like brocc(h)us (buck-toothed), lippus (blear-eyed), etc.
• Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms refer also to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words.
• All adjectives, it would seem, must be either autological or heterological, for each adjective either describes itself, or it does not.
• Imperial immediacy (Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit; adjectives reichsfrei, reichsunmittelbar) was a privileged feudal and political status, a form of statehood within the Holy Roman Empire.

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