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| - | ====== Descriptive words: adjectives ====== | + | ====== |
| Adjectives are the words that usually help to describe nouns. Adjectives do not have many grammatical forms, and we will not discuss them in this lesson. There are two types of adjectives: short one-syllable long adjectives and more longer words made from nouns or verbs. | Adjectives are the words that usually help to describe nouns. Adjectives do not have many grammatical forms, and we will not discuss them in this lesson. There are two types of adjectives: short one-syllable long adjectives and more longer words made from nouns or verbs. | ||
| ===== Short adjectives ===== | ===== Short adjectives ===== | ||
| Most of the adjectives you will find in Nûrlâm dictionary are short one-syllable long words: | Most of the adjectives you will find in Nûrlâm dictionary are short one-syllable long words: | ||
| - | * < | + | * bhog (good, fine) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * bolg (strong, mighty) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * bûrd (heavy) |
| - | * < | + | * bûrz (dark) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * dau (big, large) |
| - | * < | + | * dug (filthy, dirty) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * fik (bad) |
| - | * < | + | * graz (cold) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * gûrz (dead) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * hûr (fierce) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * karn (red) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * kû (old) |
| - | * < | + | * mik (small, little) |
| - | * < | + | * mor (black) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * nîr (pretty, beautiful, nice) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * rodh (long) |
| - | * < | + | * sta (short) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * tûrz (fat, thick) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * uf (scary) |
| ===== Long adjectives ===== | ===== Long adjectives ===== | ||
| - | Most of the long adjectives are formed from other words (usually nouns and rarely verbs) by adding suffix " | + | Most of the long adjectives are formed from other words (usually nouns and rarely verbs) by adding suffix "**//-ûrz//**": |
| * gashûrz (hot) from spelling variant " | * gashûrz (hot) from spelling variant " | ||
| * golugûrz (elvish, elven, elfin) from " | * golugûrz (elvish, elven, elfin) from " | ||
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| * urukûrz (orcish) from " | * urukûrz (orcish) from " | ||
| - | "Uzul" (green) is probably the only two-syllable long adjective in the dictionary that is not formed with suffix " | + | "Ûzûl" (green) is probably the only two-syllable long adjective in the dictionary that is not formed with suffix "//-ûrz//". |
| As you can see in previous section, in words like " | As you can see in previous section, in words like " | ||
| - | There aren't many long adjectives in the dictionary, but it doesn' | + | There aren't many long adjectives in the dictionary, but it doesn' |
| ===== Word order ===== | ===== Word order ===== | ||
| - | You may place any type of adjectives before or after the noun they describe, but other Neo-Black Speech dialects tend to place them //after// the word they modify, so most of examples in Nûrlâm' | + | You may place any type of adjectives before or after the noun they describe, but other Neo-Black Speech dialects tend to place them //after// the word they modify, so most of examples in Nûrlâm' |
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| ===== Exercise 1 ===== | ===== Exercise 1 ===== | ||
| Translate into Nûrlâm: | Translate into Nûrlâm: | ||
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| - ink gûrz golug / ink golug gûrz | - ink gûrz golug / ink golug gûrz | ||
| </ | </ | ||
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| + | ---------------------- | ||
| ===== Exercise 2 ===== | ===== Exercise 2 ===== | ||
| Translate into English: | Translate into English: | ||
| - bûrd lag | - bûrd lag | ||
| + | - dog dogum dug | ||
| - dog nuk mor tark | - dog nuk mor tark | ||
| - graz nîn | - graz nîn | ||
| - | - hont bhog | + | - ash hont bhog |
| - | - kin bûrz lugum / see the dark tower | + | - kin bûrz lugum |
| - | - mauk urukum sta / fight the short goblin | + | - lag golugûrz |
| - | - mik push | + | - mauk urukum sta |
| - | | + | - mauk za lûg gashûrz |
| + | - mik push | ||
| + | <hidden show answers> | ||
| + | - heavy sword | ||
| + | - kill the filthy slayer | ||
| + | - kill ten black humans / kill ten black men / slay ten black humans / slay ten black men | ||
| + | - cold water | ||
| + | - a good eye / one good eye / a fine eye / one fine eye | ||
| + | - see the dark tower / behold | ||
| + | - elvish sword / elven sword / elfin sword | ||
| + | - fight the short goblin | ||
| + | - fight the hot dragon / fight the hot dragons / fight this hot dragon / fight these hot dragons | ||
| + | - little shit / small shit | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | ---------------------- | ||
| + | ===== Exercise 3 ===== | ||
| + | <WRAP center round info 60%> | ||
| + | Harder exercise requiring some creativity | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | Translate these adjectives formed from nouns into English: | ||
| + | | ||
| + | - nînûrz | ||
| + | - pushûrz | ||
| + | - rodûrz | ||
| + | - tarkûrz | ||
| + | <hidden show answers> | ||
| + | - bloody | ||
| + | - aquatic / waterish / aquatical / aqueous | ||
| + | - shitty | ||
| + | - mountainous / mountainy / montane / montanic | ||
| + | - mannish / humane | ||
| + | </ | ||
| -------------------- | -------------------- | ||
| ===== See also ===== | ===== See also ===== | ||
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