Umbrean/Lessons/06 Adjectives

So now you know how to do Transitive sentences, Intransitive sentence and have an indirect object in both of them. Meaning you know what is called a tripartite language (Subjects and objects in all 2 cases are marked differently as seen). But as we all know that is not enough, you need to be able to stick adjectives on nouns and thats what we will go through here. =Adjectives= If youve learned something so far you should not expect this being a dance on roses and correct it is not. Just like english one would say "The black tooth" so is it said in umbrean


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! colspan=4 |Tjygniuvö döndiudh Dark Singular Undefined Singular Undefined Ergative ! colspan=4 | A black/dark tooth as one notice in this example the adjective (Tjygni) takes on an ending which must matche the noun in everything but the case, the gender, number and definitiveness. Fortunately adjectives have no inheritated gender and simply takes on the suffix matching the gender of the noun. Down here is a list of the ones used for the base, as in not comperative (redder) or superlative (reddest)
 * Tjygni-
 * -uvö
 * döndi-
 * -udh
 * Black/
 * Black/
 * Black/
 * Living
 * tooth
 * Living
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How would one say the darker tooth? It is the same except one use the comperative set of suffixes, and darkest is yet again the same except superlative one, all can be found here but i will give example of all three down here


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! Form ! Umbrean ! English ! Base ! Comperative ! Superlative
 * Tjygniuvö döndiudh
 * A dark tooth
 * Tjygnizu döndiudh
 * A darker tooth
 * Tjygniöwyñ döndiudh
 * a darkest tooth
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=Predicative adjectives= Dear lord another long complicated word, it literaly refers to adjectives after copulas (to be verbs).

Such as "The house is red".

In umbrean there is a way to achive that though it is not similar to how english does it.

It is done by adding the predicate ending and then treat it as an intransitive verb. If indirect object is used it means in base for "as much as X"
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! rowspan=2 | Form ! colspan=2 | Flat ! colspan=2 | Indirect ! Umbrean ! English ! Umbrean ! English ! Base ! Comperative ! Superlative
 * Döndiul Tjygnioyömavy
 * A tooth is dark
 * Döndiul dhañiovü tjygnioyömavyni
 * A tooth is as dark as coal
 * Döndiul Tjygniimömavy
 * A tooth is darker
 * Döndiul dhañiovü tjygniimömavyni
 * A tooth is darker than coal
 * Döndiul
 * a darkest tooth
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