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 |
Many | Ngeny |
Much | Mititi |
more | pol |
Gigantic | Twone |
Good | Ber |
strong | tek |
fat | ocwe |
fast | piyo |
foolish | ming |
bad | rac |
weak | kero pe |
slow | mot |
clever | riek |
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 boring | Tic 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. |