Wikibooks: Novial/AIL Adjectives

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Simple Page Navigation BookName=[[Up to AIL contents]] CurrentPage=[[ Novial version ]] PrevPage=[[Previous Neuter]] NextPage=[[Next Case]] =Adjectives= The chief use of adjectives is to serve as secondary words i.e. either as adjuncts (epithets attributive) or as predicatives. As number and sex are always indicated with sufficient clearness in the primaries it is superfluous to indicate them in secondaries. This rule is carried through in E and must be ours in N (as Ido but different from Esp) natural formes ti forme es natural ti formes es natural etc. It has already been remarked that the bare stem form of many adjectives would not be euphonious enough and that it is therefore often convenient to have a vowel added to it i is the best for that purpose and we therefore have such N adjectives as simpli nigri black posibli stranji singli propri own etc. Even where the adjective ends in only one consonant the same i may optionally be appended to it for euphony especially before words beginning with consonant groups thus we have alternative forms like bon boni good kruel krueli matur maturi sam sami publik publiki etc. The choice of i for this purpose is justified (besides by the fact that a e o are otherwise occupied) by many derivatives like simpli fika = fika simpli (below p. 137) modernisa. In some adjectives i corresponds to E ic ( ical) elektri identi kosmopoliti fanati etc. When adjectives are made into primaries we have the endings already considered for persons e o a and for neuter um. If the adjective is used by itself with reference to a substantive just mentioned ( anaphorically ) the ending i is retained and a plural may be formed in is hir es du roses li blanki es plu bel kam li redi the white one . the red one. Hir es multi roses ob vu prefera li blankis o li redis? Inter lon libres es multis in anglum e kelkis in latinum ma lo lekte nur li anglis. Similarly li maxim oldis ek lon libres the oldest ones among his books. The definite article is a secondary and therefore uninflected in number or gender ...