Greadian: Adjectives

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Introduction

Greadian adjectives are quite simply to learn. There are however some things that are different compared to other languages.

Adjectives, like most of other nominal words, conjugate in gender and number. However, adjectives don't have cases except prepositional, which is used only when required and adverbial, which isn't used as often as in English for example.

Which is more unique for adjectives, is that they have their own forms for definition and indefinition. It also allows the nouns to drop the article off sometimes. If you know any of German languages (especially the Scandinavian ones), it helps a lot with understanding the system of adjectives.

Most of adjectives are confusingly close (especially morphologically) to nouns and participles so you should be careful (or careless as they are actually just sharing more or less the same form).

Adjectives have indefinite and definite forms as mentioned above. This is very useful because then you can in most of cases drop the article off without causing any confusion. However, it doesn't apply all three kinds of articles. You can actually drop off only the neutral article and if the adjective and noun is an object you can also drop the definite article off in most of cases.

An adjective as an attribute

Adjectives as attibutes are usually sharing the same form with either nouns or participles. In the tables you will notice that singular form for each gender has usually two different forms. The reason for that is that sometimes the noun really is the same as the adjective and then, to avoid confusion, the adjective may be having the alternate form but usually that isn't necassary to distinguish them.

Indefinite conjugation

This form is used almost unexceptionally when you would use indefinite article in English. a nice boy, a beautiful woman... As a subject it almost always bears a necassary article but as an object it may be without an article.

The main rule (when the noun isn't exactly same as the adjective) is that the adjective shares same suffix with the noun. So if a feminine word ends to -a, usually the adjective ends to -a too.

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	-о/ос	-и/а	-о/е
Dual	-на
Plural	-не

...and second conjugation

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	-ко/(кос)	-ка	-(ко)/ке
Dual	-кна
Plural	-кне