ADJ: adjective
Definition
Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates, as in
Ця машина зелена. “The car [is] green.”
The ADJ tag is intended for ordinary adjectives only. See DET
for determiners and NUM for cardinal numerals.
In accord with the UD approach, adjectival ordinal numerals (перший, сьомий, стошістдесятий) 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 be compared and negated.
Most Ukrainian adjectives inflect for uk-feat/Gender (великий – велика – велике) “big”, uk-feat/Number (великий – великі), and uk-feat/Case (великий – великого – великому – великим – великім), uk-feat/Degree (великий – більший – найбільший).
Examples
- великий “big”
- старий “old”
- зелений “green”
- батьків, материн “father’s, mother’s” (possessive adjectives)
- перший, другий, третій “first, second, third”
- зроблений “done” (passive perfective participial adjective)
- роблений “being done” (passive imperfective participial adjective)
- роблячий “doing” (present participial adjective - it is considered ungrammatical but still used occasionally, which is why it is encoded)
- зробивший “having done” (past participial adjective - it is considered ungrammatical but still used occasionally, which is why it is encoded)
ADJ in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [ca] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]