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Conlangery #120: Adjectives

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What Is the Difference Between Adjectives and Adjective Classification?

The choice on the adjective is not so much of a big thing as much as what your choice with the adjective does to the rest of the system. So it's normal for adjectives to be more noun like or more verb like in different languages. In my language, kakzai, I don't have an adjective class listed. What I have are things I call state of verbs. And they're used for all of the adjective-like jobs - either relative clauses if you need something like an attributive job,. except in mine, there is a restricted options for verb aspect for these two. The attribute of use is the same as a relative clause structure.

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