Dalecarlian adjectives
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An adjective is a word, that tells us, what a noun is like, or could be like:
Kalln ir stúr - ('The man is big')Adjectives are declined with respect to:
Kellingiñ ir stúr - ('The woman is big')
Hjartað ir stúrt - ('The heart is big')
numbers:
ein stúr kall, ('a big man')
fleirer stúrer kaller, ('many big men')
cases:
ein stúr kall sát þar - ('a big man sat there')
ig ság ein stúran kall - ('I saw a big man')
ig mǿtti einum stúrum kalli - ('I met a big man')
gender:
ein stúr kall - ('a big man')
eiñ stúr kelling - ('a big woman')
eit stúrt hjarta - ('a big heart')
comparation:
ein stúr kall, ('a big man')
ein stǿrra kall, ('a bigger man')
kalln ir stǿst, ('the man is biggest')
To find out, if a word is an adjective, it's possible to put it in between the articles ein, eiñ or eit and a noun:
ein lítn brindi, ('a small elk bull')
eiñ lítiñ brú, ('a small bridge')
eit lítið hús, ('a small house')
As the nouns, the adjectives are declineded after two main conjugations: the strong and the weak conjugation.<p>
Adjectives are strongly conjugated when the noun is indefinite:
ein sjók kall, ('a sick man')
eiñ sjók kelling, ('a sick woman')
eit sjókt hjarta, ('a sick child')
Adjectives are weakly conjugated when the noun is definite:
han-þar sjóki kalln, ('the sick man')
hoñ-þar sjóka kellingiñ, ('the sick woman')
heð-þar sjóka hjartað, ('the sick child')
or otherwise definite:
tungi Andis, ('heavy Andrew')
Eirk Rouðin, ('Eric the Red')
Like other Northern Scandinavian languages and dialects, in the definite use of adjectives, Dalecarlian prefers to join the adjective and noun as a compound:
sjókkalln, ('the sick man')
sjókkellingiñ, ('the sick woman')
sjókhjartað, ('the sick child')<p> tung-Andis, ('heavy Andrew')
Rouðeirk, ('Eric the Red')
Dalecarlian strongly conjugated adjectives
Dalecarlian irregular adjectives
Dalecarlian weakly conjugated adjectives
Dalecarlian adjective comparations
