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Definition of Adjectives

1. adjective [n] - See also: adjective

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjectives

Literary usage of Adjectives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"If several adjectives limiting the same noun are co-ordinate they have the same declension: frisches, klares Wasser. But if the second or second and third ..."

2. Old English grammar by Joseph Wright, Elizabeth Mary Lea Wright (1908)
"In the parent Indg. language nouns and adjectives were declined alike without any ... What is called the un- inflected form of adjectives in the Germanic ..."

3. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1871)
"Derivation of adjectives. For adjectives in os, see 309 b : for those in ... Many verbal adjectives, expressing FITNESS or ABILITY, arc formed by ко (nom. ..."

4. Old English grammar by Elizabeth Mary Lea Wright, Joseph Wright (1908)
"In the parent Indg. language nouns and adjectives were declined alike without any ... What is called the un- inflected form of adjectives in the Germanic ..."

5. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"The dative with certain adjectives is in origin a Dative of Purpose or End. 384. The Dative is used with adjectives (and a few Adverbs) of fitness, ..."

6. Italian Grammar by Charles Hall Grandgent (1904)
"adjectives. 26. adjectives agree with their substantives in gender and number. An adjective modifying two nouns of different genders is generally put in the ..."

7. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness (1872)
"The Ablative in e in many adjectives of one ending cannot be veri- ... adjectives of one ending with only e in the ablative « ..."

8. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"94), as well as Verbal adjectives ... Latin adjectives in -dx express tendency or character, ... 51); -ox appears in the derivatives from adjectives, ..."

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