ADJ: adjective
Definition
Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates, as in
The car is green.
The ADJ tag is intended for ordinary adjectives only. See DET
for determiners and NUM for numerals.
Note that there are words that may be traditionally called numerals in
some languages (e.g. Czech) but they are treated as adjectives in our
universal tagging scheme. In particular, ordinal numerals (more
precisely adjectival ordinal numerals, because Czech has also
adverbial ones) behave both morphologically and syntactically as
adjectives and are tagged ADJ.
Note that participles are word forms that may share properties and
usage of adjectives and verbs. Depending on language and context, they
may be classified as either VERB or ADJ.
Examples
- big
- old
- green
- incomprehensible
- first, second, third
References
ADJ in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]