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Adjectives became a separate morphological part of speech from nouns under Irish influence. | Adjectives became a separate morphological part of speech from nouns under Irish influence. | ||
Most non-nisba adjectives have the same declension: m. sg. -0, f. sg. -ə, pl. -ə. Nisba adjectives decline as -i -ī́jə -ī́jə. (The plural -ə comes from broken plurals taking feminine singular agreement, and spread to all plural adjectives under the influence of Irish plural -a/-e for adjectives.) | |||
áhMəR, háMRə | Color adjectives follow a different declension: m.sg. áhMəR, f.sg. and pl. háMRə. | ||
Predicative adjectives and adverbs formed from adjectives use kəl-(moon)/kəC-(sun) + masculine sg. form of the adjective. | Predicative adjectives and adverbs formed from adjectives use kəl-(moon)/kəC-(sun) + masculine sg. form of the adjective. | ||