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==Adjectives== | ==Adjectives== | ||
Adjectives are placed before the nouns they modify. | |||
===Formation=== | ===Formation=== | ||
With a few exceptions, all adjectives end in the highly productive adjectivising suffix -ig. Adjectives derived from place names and names of ethnic groups end in -iess instead, and a closed class of native adjectives has no suffix at all. | |||
===Inflection=== | ===Inflection=== | ||
Adjectives are inflected for three degrees of comparison. The positive is unmarked. The comparative and superlative are marked with the suffixes -err and -iss respectively, which become -terr and -tiss after vowels. | |||
*''klyn'' "small" > ''klynerr'' "smaller" > ''klyniss'' "smallest" | |||
*''mojj'' "beautiful" > ''mojjerr'' "more beautiful" > ''mojjiss'' "most beautiful" | |||
*''kra'' "big" > ''kraterr'' "bigger" > ''kratiss'' "biggest" | |||
There are three irregular adjectives. | |||
*''gut'' "good" > ''byterr'' "better" > ''bisst'' "best" | |||
*''fill'' "much/many" > ''mirr'' "more" > ''filless'' "most" | |||
*''ferr'' "far" > ''ferrtē'' "further" > ''firrst'' "furthest" | |||
Adverbs can be derived from adjectives using the suffix -lyk. Most adjectives ending in -ig can be used as adverbs without first adding -lyk. | |||
===Comparison=== | ===Comparison=== | ||