• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective, phrasal adjective, or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: that is...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs are the various forms taken by adjectives and adverbs when used to compare two or more entities (comparative...
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    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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  • 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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  • language, an adjectival noun, nominal adjective, copular noun, adjectival verb (形容動詞, keiyō dōshi), quasi-adjective, pseudo-adjective, or na-adjective, is a...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • interpretations of English grammar, ordinal numerals are usually conflated with adjectives. Ordinal numbers may be written in English with numerals and letter suffixes:...
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  • functions of both verbs and adjectives. More narrowly, participle has been defined as "a word derived from a verb and used as an adjective, as in a laughing face"...
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  • 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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  • 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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    Metal (redirect from Metallic (adjective))
    A metal (from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon) 'mine, quarry, metal') is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and...
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    derivatives (such as fucker and fucking) are used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, an infix, an interjection or an adverb. There are many common phrases...
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  • The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed...
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  • Arabic nouns and adjectives are declined according to case, state, gender and number. While this is strictly true in Classical Arabic, in colloquial or...
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    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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    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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