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adjectives and deriving
Other languages often have similar methods for deriving adverbs from adjectives ( French, for example, uses the suffix-ment ), or else use the same form for both adjectives and adverbs.
* However, some eponymous adjectives are nowadays entered in many dictionaries as lowercase when they have evolved a common status, no longer deriving their meaning from the proper-noun origin.
The suffíx-í ( deriving adjectives from place names, as in Marbellí or Ceutí " from Marbella " or " from Ceuta " respectively ) is an example.

adjectives and from
To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.
Some adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing: blond ( male ) and blonde ( female ) or a bonie lad as compared to a bonnie lass.
He proposed the reduction of the alphabet to 22 letters ( by eliminating the accented letters and most of their sounds ), the change of the plural to-i, the use of a positional accusative instead of the ending-n, the removal of the distinction between adjectives and adverbs, the reduction of the number of participles from six to two, and the replacement of the table of correlatives with more Latinate words or phrases.
Many new words can be derived simply by changing these suffixes, just as-ly derives adverbs from adjectives in English: From vidi ( to see ), we get vida ( visual ), vide ( visually ), and vido ( sight ).
The-io ( n ) ending is used in English to create nouns from Latin adjectives and it can indicate a state or action wherein the Latin verb is being, or has been, performed.
Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending-te begins to reduce onto the verb ( e. g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the-k-in the final syllable of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form ( e. g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ, where modern Japanese just has hayaku, though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu " good morning "; this ending is also seen in o-medetō " congratulations ", from medetaku ).
For example, the compound adjective, omnipotens, " all-powerful ," was produced from the adjectives omnis, " all ", and potens, " powerful ", by dropping the final s of omnis and concatenating.
Often the concatenation changed the part of speech ; i. e., nouns were produced from verb segments or verbs from nouns and adjectives.
Adverbs are defined in terms of the adjectives they are derived from, and thus inherit their structure from that of the adjectives.
Examples in English are the verbal nouns formed from verbs by the addition of-ing, nouns formed from verbs using other suffixes such as organization and discovery, agent nouns formed from verbs usually with the suffix-er or-or, as in actor and worker, feminine forms of nouns such as actress, lioness, nouns formed from adjectives such as happiness, and many other types.
* In English adverbs can be formed from most adjectives with the ending-ly, and there are also many independent adverbs.
An English adverb, which is derived from an adjective, is arranged in the German language under the adjectives with adverbial use in the sentence.
* In Scandinavian languages, adverbs are typically derived from adjectives by adding the suffix '- t ', which makes it identical to the adjective's neuter form.
* In Romance languages many adverbs are formed from adjectives ( often the feminine form ) by adding '- mente ' ( Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian ) or '- ment ' ( French, Catalan ) ( from Latin mens, mentis: mind, intelligence ).

adjectives and her
Beruryah ( her name is a standard Jewish female name meaning ' the clarity of God ') is a Tannah mentioned by name in the Talmud, who has a female name, has orally been transmitted as a female, and is referred to in the text using the nekava ( feminine Hebrew and Aramaic ) adjectives and adverbs.
Most of the claims about Koko's language use center around her use, not of sentences, but of adjectives, nouns, and noun phrases.
Voltairine de Cleyre's political perspective shifted throughout her life, eventually leading her to become an outspoken proponent of " anarchism without adjectives ," a doctrine, according to historian George Richard Esenwein, " without any qualifying labels such as communist, collectivist, mutualist, or individualist.
The respondent is asked to choose where his or her position lies, on a scale between two bipolar adjectives ( for example: " Adequate-Inadequate ", " Good-Evil " or " Valuable-Worthless ").
Speaking of her work, Fredrik Böök says that " there was every word needed and no more, almost no adjectives.

adjectives and name
In Celtic polytheism, the name of the oak tree was part of the Proto-Celtic word for ' druid ': * derwo-weyd-> * druwid-; however, Proto-Celtic * derwo-( and * dru -) can also be adjectives for ' strong ' and ' firm ', so Ranko Matasovic interprets that * druwid-may mean ' strong knowledge '.
Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, " hard, enduring ", which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλήναι " to endure "; Doig offers the further possibility that Virgil was aware of Strabo's remark that the native North African name for this mountain was Douris.
Some ( very rare ) nouns change gender according to the way they are used: the words amour, délice (" love " and " delight, pleasure ") are masculine in singular and feminine in plural ; the word orgue (" organ ") is masculine, but when used emphatically in plural to refer to a church organ it becomes feminine ( les grandes orgues ); the plural name gens (" people ") changes gender in a very unusual way, depending on the adjectives that are used with it.
The vocabulary overlap with that of posthumous titles ' adjectives, but for one emperor, the temple name's adjective character usually does not repeat as one of the many adjective characters in his posthumous name.
The name Đirona consists of a long-vowel, o-grade stem tsīro-derived from the root * ster-and a-no-suffix forming adjectives of appurtenance in many Indo-European languages.
In many inflected languages, such as Greek and Russian, some nouns and adjectives of foreign origin are left uninflected in contexts where native words would be inflected ; for instance, the name Abraam in Greek ( from Hebrew ), the Modern Greek word μπλε ble ( from French bleu ), the Italian word computer, and the Russian words ( kangaroo ) and ( coat, from French paletot ).
When the word " margarita " is used by itself, it typically refers to the lime or lemon juice margarita, but when other juices are used, the fruits are typically added as adjectives in the name ; with lime juice or lemon juice added to give it a characteristic margarita flavor ( a wedge of lime is often added to the glass ).
Travelling far away also led to problems in name usage, British birds like " Wheatear ", " Heron " and " Swallow " needed adjectives to differentiate them in places where there were several related species.
In addition to the name scorpionfish, informal names for family members include " firefish ", " turkeyfish ", " dragonfish ", and " stingfish ", usually with adjectives added.
The English of White-throated was introduced since the range is large and geographic adjectives would make the name too restrictive, while the older name of White-breasted would not describe the eastern race which has only the throat white.
The name of the specific epithet ( ubique ) is a Latin adverb meaning " everywhere "; it should be noted species with the status Candidatus are not validly published so do not have to be grammatically correct, such as having specific epithets having to be adjectives or nouns in apposition in the nominative case or genitive nouns according to rule 12c of the IBCN.
Because Polish adjectives have different forms for the genders, Poniatowska is the same name for a female family member.
The name breaks the rules of Czech and Slovak orthography which do not use capitalization for proper names ' second and further words ( see above ), nor adjectives derived from them.
It is a very branchy system of many shorter rivers, a large number of them having the same name ( Timok ), only clarified with adjectives.

adjectives and place
In an ordinary language, these would give place respectively to substantives, verbs, and adjectives.
Outside of Europe, subject – verb – object languages have a strong tendency to place adjectives, demonstratives, and numerals after the noun they modify, though Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Malay place numerals before nouns as English does.
Other languages, such as French, often place even single-word adjectives after the noun.
One was that SHRDLU's world was so simple that the entire set of objects and locations could be described by including as few as perhaps 50 words: nouns like " block " and " cone ", verbs like " place on " and " move to ", and adjectives like " big " and " blue ".
The characterisation as " Akamates "-adding all kind of adjectives in the names of the churches or the saints is common place in Greek-orthodox tradition-has been given a lot of explanations.
Languages that place relative clauses after their head noun ( so-called head-initial or VO languages ) generally also have adjectives and genitive modifiers following the head noun, as well as verbs preceding their objects.
Languages that place relative clauses before their head noun ( so-called head-final or OV languages ) generally also have adjectives and genitive modifiers preceding the head noun, as well as verbs following their objects.
In Slovene, nouns define a person, place, or a thing, as well as adjectives, which describe the attributes of a noun, are declined for six cases and three numbers ( singular, dual, and plural ).

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