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 |Tyciuv'ö döndius' Dark Singular Undefined Singular Undefined Ergative ! colspan=4 | A black/dark tooth as one notice in this example the adjective (Tyci) 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)
 * Tyci-
 * -uv'ö
 * döndi-
 * -us'
 * Black/
 * Black/
 * Black/
 * Living
 * tooth
 * Living
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! colspan = 7 | Base ! rowspan=2 |Gender ! colspan=2 | Singular ! colspan=2 | Puacal ! colspan=2 | Plural !Undefined !Defined !Undefined !Defined !Undefined !Defined ! None-Moving ! Living ! Mechanical ! Magical
 * -óv'
 * -oli
 * -óv'i
 * -enlo
 * -ófió
 * -alió
 * -ufö
 * -ydwa
 * -is'u
 * -mia
 * -twiö
 * -midwa
 * -yka
 * -yña
 * -ube
 * -nilu
 * -ca
 * -z'ö
 * -ac
 * -acda
 * -idö
 * -ölpi
 * -ni*öa
 * -cipo
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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
 * Tyciuv'ö döndius'
 * A dark tooth
 * Tyciz'u döndius'
 * A darker tooth
 * Tyciöwyñ döndius'
 * 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 that cannot be done and adjectives must always be attatched to a noun


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