ADJ: adjective
Definition
Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates: Շտերն աղտեղի է:/Štern aġteġi ē. “The papules are unpleasant.”
The ADJ tag is intended for ordinary adjectives only. See DET for determiners and NUM for numerals.
In accordance with the UD approach, ordinal numerals (առջի/aṙǰi, իրեքում/irek’owm, չորսում/čorsowm, տասնուվեցում/tasnowvec’owm) “first, third, fourth, sixteenth”, are tagged as adjectives, although the traditional grammar classifies them as numerals. They behave like adjectives both morphologically and syntactically, with the exception that they cannot form degrees of comparison.
Most Middle Armenian adjectives can form comparative and superlative Degree (աղէկ/aġēk, այլ աղէկ/ayl aġēk, այլ աղէկն/ayl aġēkn “good, better, the best”).
Examples
- մենձ/menj “big”
- ամուր/amowr “hard, strong”
- կանանչ/kananč “green”
- անլմնելի/anlmneli “endless, infinite”
- առջի/aṙǰi, երկուսում/erkowsowm, իրեքում/irek’owm “first, second, third”
Border cases
Resultative, subject, and past participles are word forms that share properties of both adjectives and verbs. Note that both core participial forms (used to form finite indicative tenses) and participial adjectives (used in nominal predication with the copula or to modify nouns) are tagged as VERB:
- ջրած գինի/ǰraç gini “wine diluted with water”
- նախշող վարպետ/naxšoġ varpet “a master of ornamentation”
- ծաղկեալ ծառ/çaġkeal çaṙ “a tree in bloom”
- լոկցեալ է ի թթու ջուր/lokc’eal ē i t’t’ow ǰowr “He has bathed in sour water”
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