ADJ: adjective
Definition
Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates, as in
Hoan ge a ǃgâi. “Everything is good.”
Some words that could be seen as adjectives (and are tagged as such in other annotation schemes) have a different tag in UD. See DET for determiners and NUM for cardinal numerals.
ADJ is also used for “proper adjectives” such as Russiaǁî “Russian” (“proper” as in proper nouns, i.e., words that are derived from names but are adjectives rather than nouns).
In accord with the UD approach, adjectival ordinal numerals (e.g., ǂguro “first”, ǃnonaǁî “third) are tagged as adjectives, although the traditional grammar classifies them as numerals.
In most cases, Khoekhoe adjectives do not inflect and do not have any features. However, when an adjective follows (and not precedes) a nominal it modifies, it has the same Person, Gender, Number, and Assoc as the nominal, and gets the Case of the whole noun phrase (ǃgâi khoeb - khoeb ǃgâib - ǃgâi khoeba - khoeb ǃgâiba).
Examples
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kai “big”
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kaira “old”
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ǃam “green”
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Russiaǁî “Russian”
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ǂguro “first”, ǀgamǁî “second”, ǃnonaǁî “third
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dīsa “done”
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