Questions tagged [adjective]

For questions about adjectives.

Adjectives are in grammar words that modify nouns. A noun is any word describing a thing, such as ‘James’, ‘girl’, ‘order’, ‘Latin’, ‘language’; an adjective can describe any such words. Adjectives do not modify other adjectives, adverbs, verbs or any other classes of words. Examples:

  • James was cold.
  • The freezing girl sat waiting for the bus.
  • Good order makes learning easier.
  • A dead language, some say, but Latin is alive online.

Questions within this category have adjectives as a main topic to the problem they are positing.

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How can you find the stem for an adjective in Latin?

For example, for the word bonus, bona, bonum ('good') the masculine nominative singular obviously has the same stem as the oblique forms. But, with a word like 'our' (noster, nostra, nostrum) how can you identify the stem with which to decline the…
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How to tell if an adjective listed in a vocabulary is third-declension or first-second-declension?

In Keller's Learn to Read Latin: When a third-declension adjective has three forms in the nominative singular, the vocabulary entry contains the same elements as the entry for a first-second-declension adjective: the masculine, feminine, and neuter…
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How do you assign ambiguous adjectives?

In many cases I encounter situations where an adjective could be modifying different words in the same sentence. For example, in the famous play Miles Gloriosus there is the line: Mala mulier mers est. It would appear Mala could be modifying either…
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Translate fictional location and book into Latin

I'm not an English speaker and I don't know many definitions and "big" words in that language, so forgive me for speaking like a barbarian. I have no knowledge of Latin, but I want to make some Latin names (for worldbuilding reasons). At the moment…
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Are the positive and comparative versions of an adjective different adjectives or different forms of the same adjective?

I am trying to figure out the difference between a word and a form of a word. Which is the comparative version of an adjective in the positive degree: an adjective different from the adjective, or a form of the adjective? In English, is it correct…
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