Translation for '
adjective' from English to Russian
NOUN | an adjective | adjectives | |
SYNO | adjectival | adjective | procedural |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- English orthography sometimes uses the term proper adjective to mean adjectives that take initial capital letters, and common adjective to mean those that do not.
- The adjective and the noun together are called the 'adjective noun complex'.
- The first character is an adjective, chosen to reflect the circumstances of the monarch's reign.
- An adjective phrase is a group of words that plays the role of an adjective in a sentence. It usually has a single adjective as its head, to which modifiers and complements may be added.
- An adjective acts as the head of an "adjective phrase" or "adjectival phrase" (AP).
- A related term is the adjective "gnostikos", "cognitive", a reasonably common adjective in Classical Greek.
- There are four types of adjectives: adjective of quality, adjective of quantity, demonstrative adjective, interrogative adjective.
- Adjective endings also change in the accusative case.
- The predicative adjective construction uses this same verb-initial construction: "bod" – NP – "yn"+SM – adjective.
- Latin adjective "acidus", sour, acid; Greek adjective "thermos (θερμός)", hot; New Latin masculine gender noun "Acidothermus", acid and hot (loving).
- New Latin noun "acidum" (from Latin adjective "acidus", sour), an acid; New Latin neuter gender adjective "philum" (from Greek neuter gender adjective "philon (φίλον)"), friend, loving; New Latin neuter gender noun "Acidiphilium" ("sic"), acid lover.
- Comparative adjectives are formed by placing various particles ([...] , [...] , and [...]) in front of the adjective receiving the comparison.
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