Adjective (Bayyanau)

Adjective

Adjective is a word that describes or gives more information about nouns or pronouns. An adjective qualify noun because it describe noun by given more information. In qualifying the word girl with the adjective beautiful when we said; beautiful girl we only consider beautiful girl. In qualifying noun House with adjective big when we said big house we only consider big house.

Adjectives usually tell us more about colour, size, quantity and quality. The following table illustrated types of adjective and examples;

Adjectives	Examples
Gradable adjectives	Small, big, bright, light, happy, angry, hungry,
Non gradable adjectives	Wooden, plastic, unique
Attributive adjectives	Blue, huge, cakes, thankless, fateful
Predicative adjectives	Resistant to, allergic to, afraid of, devoid of, characteristic of, capable
Qualitative adjectives	Violent, effective, brief, busy, pleasant, new, huge
Classifying adjectives	Democratic, financial,  medical, urban, annual
Colour adjectives	Light brown, dark blue, bright green, deep purple
Compound adjectives	Grey-haired, part-time, black-and-white, kind-hearted,
Adjectives used as nouns	Disabled, unemployed, poor, old

Use your grammar book to find more explanation on noun, types of noun and function of Adjectives.

Siffatau (Adjectives)

Siffatau (Adjectives) kalma ce da ake amfani da ita wajen bayya suna (Noun) ko bada qarin bayanin suna (Noun) ko wakilin suna (Pronoun). Siffatau (Adjectives) shi ke siffanta suna (noun) ko wakilin suna (pronoun) ta hanyar bayar da cikakken baya ni a kan suna (noun) ko wakilin suna (pronoun) wajen siffanta Kalmar gida (house) don nuna babban gida ne, ana iya cewa Big House duk wanda ya karanta zai fahimci ana magana kan babban gida. Siffatau (Adjectives) yana yin qarin bayani akan kala (colour) girma (size) nagarta (quality) adadi ko yawa (quantity).

Tabirin da ke biye yana kawo mana ire-iren Siffatau (Adjectives) da misalansa;       

Siffatau (Adjectives)	Misalai (Examples)
Gradable adjectives	Small, big, bright, light, happy, angry, hungry,
Non gradable adjectives	Wooden, plastic, unique
Attributive adjectives	Blue, huge, cakes, thankless, fateful
Predicative adjectives	Resistant to, allergic to, afraid of, devoid of, characteristic of, capable
Qualitative adjectives	Violent, effective, brief, busy, pleasant, new, huge
Classifying adjectives	Democratic, financial,  medical, urban, annual
Colour adjectives	Light brown, dark blue, bright green, deep purple
Compound adjectives	Grey-haired, part-time, black-and-white, kind-hearted,
Adjectives used as nouns	Disabled, unemployed, poor, old

Yi amfani da littafin nahawunka ka gano ma’anar ire-iren Siffatau (Adjectives) da kuma yadda ake amfani dasu.

Learn English (Koyi Turanchi)

1. Part of Speech
2. Noun
3. Pronoun
4. Verb
5. Adverb
6. Adjective
7. Preposition
8. Conjunction