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Interrogative adjective modifies a noun or noun phrase in order to ask for information specifying something, or quantity. Interrogative Adjectives ko ko is used to ask for information specifying one or more people or things from a definite set; furthermore, it is equal to English determiners 'what' and 'which'. ko-soran ebaiver tugan;'Which skirt do they … Continue reading Interrogative Adjectives
In Jembesa, demonstrative determiners are same as demonstrative pronouns. Demonstrative pronouns function as a noun or noun phrase; on the other hand, demonstrative determiners function as an adjective. Despite thier functions, they are not classified as adjectives due to the fact that they don't end with adjectival suffix -o or -ö. They are classified as … Continue reading Demonstrative Determiners
Adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or noun phrase. It may either precede or follow a noun. Due to the fact that Jembesa is a head-final language, adjectives precede nouns in the language. In some of the languages (like Latin, French, German etc.), adjectives alter their form to … Continue reading Part of Speech (Adjective)
Pronoun is a word which substitutes for a noun phrase. In Jembesa, there are seven kinds of pronouns: personal, possessive, reflexive, reciprocal, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative. A pronoun can be marked with some features which a noun can take on: number, case, and enclitic; e.g. munnattu 'to both of us, too?' [1st person dual + illative case … Continue reading Part of Speech (Pronoun)
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