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A few adjectives are regularly preposed, notably ''hen''^L 'old' and ''penn''^L 'chief'. These adjectives always cause lenition to a following noun (e.g. ''hen wur'' 'old man').

Adjectives following feminine singular nouns undergo lentition (e.g. ''gwrek voar'' 'large woman'). Where possible they also undergo the change of ''i'' → ''e'' and ''u'' → ''o'' (e.g. ''ci gwinn, cath wenn'' 'white dog, white cat', ''gur druk, gwrek dhrok'' 'bad man, bad woman').  

A few adjectives retain old plural forms, used following a plural noun. These are ''bechan'' 'small' pl. ''bechen', ''yowank'' 'young' pl. ''yowenk'' and ''maruw'' 'dead' pl. ''meriw''.

An '''exclamative''' adjective can be formed by adding ''-het'' to the positive (e.g. ''gwinnet'' 'how white!, so white!', ''glanhet'' 'how clean!, so clean!'). The adverb ''mar'' 'how, so' can also be used with longer adjectives to produce an exclamative (e.g. ''mar dhiwedhar'' 'so late').  

The '''equative'' is formed with the adverb ''cen''^L 'as' preceding the positive adjective (e.g. ''cen winn a'r err'' 'as white as the snow').  

The ''''comparative'''' adjective is formed by adding ''-ach'' to the positive adjective, and the superlative takes ''-hav'' (e.g. ''gwinnach'' 'whiter', ''gwinnav'' 'whitest', ''caledach'' 'harder', ''calettav'' 'hardest').  

| ''cen nes''

| ''ley''

| ''leyhav''

| ''hinhet''