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When used predicatively, they need a form of ''jalle'' following them. | When used predicatively, they need a form of ''jalle'' following them. | ||
Note that ''cami'', ''taili'', and ''kaili'', in some (but not all) Archaic Chlouvānem texts, have a singular-only declension based on the irregular one of ''ami'' (see the declensions of correlatives and possessives in the next section). Most probably this was an analogic feature of a few pre-Classical standardization Chlouvānem dialects of 2000 years ago.<br/>Particles such as ''maibu'' (enough) or ''vivāmi'' (too much/many) are semantically the same as these adjective-like words, but they are considered particles because they ''follow'' the noun they refer to (e.g. '' | Note that ''cami'', ''taili'', and ''kaili'', in some (but not all) Archaic Chlouvānem texts, have a singular-only declension based on the irregular one of ''ami'' (see the declensions of correlatives and possessives in the next section). Most probably this was an analogic feature of a few pre-Classical standardization Chlouvānem dialects of 2000 years ago.<br/>Particles such as ''maibu'' (enough) or ''vivāmi'' (too much/many) are semantically the same as these adjective-like words, but they are considered particles because they ''follow'' the noun they refer to (e.g. ''cūlli vivāmi virā'' "there are too many cars"). | ||
===Comparatives and superlatives=== | ===Comparatives and superlatives=== | ||