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Adjectives are left grouping. {{t|raı de gı}} is {{t|((raı) de) gı}} "good beautiful thing". This becomes less obvious with serials: {{T| kue jaq gı}} (''book very good'') is still ''(book) very good'' even though it may look like ''*((book) very) good''. | |||
Now when you are dealing with nouns, you can safely put words next to it like this, because nouns have no object places. But when you are dealing with verbs | Now when you are dealing with nouns, you can safely put words next to it like this, because nouns have no object places. But when you are dealing with verbs, this may cause it to be a [[Serial verbs|serial verb]] instead. This is where <span class="toaq" lang="toaq" style="color:#5555ff;font-size:16px">{{T| kı-}}</span> comes in, which marks a word as an adjective and stops it from becoming a [[Serial verbs|serial verb]]. | ||
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{{T| ca | {{T| ca kı̣nuı}} (''cause <span class="toaq" lang="toaq" style="color:#5555ff;font-size:16px">kı-</span>small''): small cause | ||
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{{T| lıe | {{T| lıe kı̣bıaq tucaı}} (''experience <span class="toaq" lang="toaq" style="color:#5555ff;font-size:16px">kı-</span>enough strong''): sufficiently strong experiencer | ||
Latest revision as of 19:22, 4 December 2024
Adjectives come after the things they describe. The regular way of adding adjectives to nouns is just adding the adjective after it.
orogı kuo (orchid black): black orchid
kue jaq gı (book very good): very good book
du rua jaq de (seem flower very beautiful): very beautiful (thing) which seems to be a flower
Adjectives are left grouping. raı de gı is ((raı) de) gı "good beautiful thing". This becomes less obvious with serials: kue jaq gı (book very good) is still (book) very good even though it may look like *((book) very) good.
Now when you are dealing with nouns, you can safely put words next to it like this, because nouns have no object places. But when you are dealing with verbs, this may cause it to be a serial verb instead. This is where kı- comes in, which marks a word as an adjective and stops it from becoming a serial verb.
ca nuı (cause small): cause to be small
ca kı̣nuı (cause kı-small): small cause
lıe bıaq tucaı (experience enough strong): experience being sufficiently strong
lıe kı̣bıaq tucaı (experience kı-enough strong): sufficiently strong experiencer