lessons:adjectives
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| ===== Short adjectives ===== | ===== Short adjectives ===== | ||
| Most of the adjectives you will find in Nûrlâm dictionary are short one-syllable long words: | Most of the adjectives you will find in Nûrlâm dictionary are short one-syllable long words: | ||
| - | * < | + | * bhog (good, fine) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * bolg (strong, mighty) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * bûrd (heavy) |
| - | * < | + | * bûrz (dark) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * dau (big, large) |
| - | * < | + | * dug (filthy, dirty) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * fik (bad) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * graz (cold) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * gûrz (dead) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * hûr (fierce) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * karn (red) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * kû (old) |
| - | * < | + | * mik (small, little) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * mor (black) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * nîr (pretty, beautiful, nice) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * rodh (long) |
| - | * < | + | * sta (short) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * tûrz (fat, thick) |
| - | * <todo # | + | * uf (scary) |
| ===== Long adjectives ===== | ===== Long adjectives ===== | ||
| - | Most of the long adjectives are formed from other words (usually nouns and rarely verbs) by adding suffix " | + | Most of the long adjectives are formed from other words (usually nouns and rarely verbs) by adding suffix "**//-ûrz//**": |
| * gashûrz (hot) from spelling variant " | * gashûrz (hot) from spelling variant " | ||
| * golugûrz (elvish, elven, elfin) from " | * golugûrz (elvish, elven, elfin) from " | ||
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| * urukûrz (orcish) from " | * urukûrz (orcish) from " | ||
| - | "Uzul" (green) is probably the only two-syllable long adjective in the dictionary that is not formed with suffix " | + | "Ûzûl" (green) is probably the only two-syllable long adjective in the dictionary that is not formed with suffix "//-ûrz//". |
| As you can see in previous section, in words like " | As you can see in previous section, in words like " | ||
| - | There aren't many long adjectives in the dictionary, but it doesn' | + | There aren't many long adjectives in the dictionary, but it doesn' |
| ===== Word order ===== | ===== Word order ===== | ||
| - | You may place any type of adjectives before or after the noun they describe, but other Neo-Black Speech dialects tend to place them //after// the word they modify, so most of examples in Nûrlâm' | + | You may place any type of adjectives before or after the noun they describe, but other Neo-Black Speech dialects tend to place them //after// the word they modify, so most of examples in Nûrlâm' |
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| ===== Exercise 1 ===== | ===== Exercise 1 ===== | ||
| Translate into Nûrlâm: | Translate into Nûrlâm: | ||
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| - ink gûrz golug / ink golug gûrz | - ink gûrz golug / ink golug gûrz | ||
| </ | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | ---------------------- | ||
| ===== Exercise 2 ===== | ===== Exercise 2 ===== | ||
| Translate into English: | Translate into English: | ||
| - bûrd lag | - bûrd lag | ||
| + | - dog dogum dug | ||
| - dog nuk mor tark | - dog nuk mor tark | ||
| - graz nîn | - graz nîn | ||
| - | - hont bhog | + | - ash hont bhog |
| - | - kin bûrz lugum / see the dark tower | + | - kin bûrz lugum |
| - | - mauk urukum sta / fight the short goblin | + | - lag golugûrz |
| - | - mik push | + | - mauk urukum sta |
| - | | + | - mauk za lûg gashûrz |
| + | - mik push | ||
| + | <hidden show answers> | ||
| + | - heavy sword | ||
| + | - kill the filthy slayer | ||
| + | - kill ten black humans / kill ten black men / slay ten black humans / slay ten black men | ||
| + | - cold water | ||
| + | - a good eye / one good eye / a fine eye / one fine eye | ||
| + | - see the dark tower / behold | ||
| + | - elvish sword / elven sword / elfin sword | ||
| + | - fight the short goblin | ||
| + | - fight the hot dragon / fight the hot dragons / fight this hot dragon / fight these hot dragons | ||
| + | - little shit / small shit | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | ---------------------- | ||
| + | ===== Exercise 3 ===== | ||
| + | <WRAP center round info 60%> | ||
| + | Harder exercise requiring some creativity | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | Translate these adjectives formed from nouns into English: | ||
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| + | - nînûrz | ||
| + | - pushûrz | ||
| + | - rodûrz | ||
| + | - tarkûrz | ||
| + | <hidden show answers> | ||
| + | - bloody | ||
| + | - aquatic / waterish / aquatical / aqueous | ||
| + | - shitty | ||
| + | - mountainous / mountainy / montane / montanic | ||
| + | - mannish / humane | ||
| + | </ | ||
| -------------------- | -------------------- | ||
| ===== See also ===== | ===== See also ===== | ||
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