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==Adjectives== | ==Adjectives== | ||
There are two patterns of adjectives in Vinnish: declinables and indeclinables. | |||
Declinable adjectives in Vinnish agree with the nouns they modify in gender, case, number, and definiteness. There are two inflections for adjectives: strong and weak adjectives. | |||
Indeclinable adjectives, as the name suggests, do not decline at all, and are limited to present participles, comparative adjectives, and some loanwords. Virtually all indeclinable adjectives end in -i. | |||
===Strong Adjectives=== | ===Strong Adjectives=== | ||
Strong adjectives are used attributively with indefinite nouns and predicatively with all nouns. They inflect for gender, case, and number. | Strong adjectives are used attributively with indefinite nouns and predicatively with all nouns. They inflect for gender, case, and number. | ||
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|cold-NEUT-PL-DEF ship-PL-NOM | |cold-NEUT-PL-DEF ship-PL-NOM | ||
|the cold ships}} | |the cold ships}} | ||
===Nominalizing Adjectives=== | |||
While exceedingly rare, the indeclinable adjectives can be nominalized. When nominalized, they take the normal inflections of weak nouns with endings in -i. | |||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||