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Acholi Language

Adjectives 

Adjectives are a part of speech in English grammar. They describe or modify nouns or pronouns, providing additional details or attributes about the person, thing, or idea that the noun or pronoun represents.

Adjectives can provide a wide range of information, including qualities, size, shape, color, age, feelings, materials, origin, and more. For example:

  • Qualities: "happy", "sad", "brave", "lonely"
  • Size: "big", "small", "large", "tiny"
  • Shape: "round", "square", "flat", "curved"
  • Color: "red", "green", "blue", "white"
  • Age: "old", "young", "new", "ancient"
  • Feelings: "joyful", "angry", "excited", "nervous"
  • Materials: "wooden", "metal", "plastic", "glass"
  • Origin: "American", "Italian", "Asian", "African"

Adjectives can appear before the noun they describe (attributive position), as in "a red apple" or "a quick solution", or they can follow the noun, usually after a verb (predicative position), as in "the apple is red" or "the solution was quick".

Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives are used to compare two or more nouns. For example, "big", "bigger", "biggest" or "beautiful", "more beautiful", "most beautiful".

In English, the usual order of adjectives in a series before a noun is as follows: opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, purpose. For example, "a beautiful large old round wooden table". However, this order can sometimes vary depending on the context and the writer's stylistic choice.
are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven.

English

Acholi

ManyNgeny
MuchMititi
morepol
GiganticTwone
GoodBer
strongtek
fatocwe
fastpiyo
foolishming
badrac
weakkero pe
slowmot
cleverriek

 

Adjective in the past

English

Acholi

Lokang loved his job.Lokang maro tic ne/mege/pere.
Lokang is bored.Lokang Oder
Atieno is interested in politics.Atieno omaro te bye
Everybody was surprised that he passed the exam.Ngat mo keken cwinye yom me ngeyo ni okato peny
I was shocked when I heard the news.Koma odange i kare ma awinyo ngec ne.


Adjective in present continuous

English

Acholi

Lokang is loving his job.Lokang maro tic ne/mege/pere.
Lokang job is boringTic pa Lokang dero en
Atieno thinks politics is interesting.Te bye yomo i Atieno
It was surprising that he passed the exam.Cwinya yom ni okato peny
The news was shocking.Ngec ne dango cwiny dano.