adjectives in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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adjective [ˈæ·dʒɪk·tɪv] N LING

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In poetry, however, and to a lesser extent in prose, most adjectives "may" occur before the noun they modify, but this is a literary device.
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Instead of using a copula, it is possible to conjugate nouns or adjectives like verbs.
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One generally sees adjectives in their neuter form when used pronominally for this reason.
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He frequently speaks using a form of futuristic slang that involves a shortening of modern adjectives (for example, pendous for stupendous or morb for morbid).
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However, it also has numerous closed classes including fourteen adjectives, adpositions, interjections, conjunctions and demonstratives.
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They have a weaker but significant tendency to place demonstrative adjectives before the nouns they modify.
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As with second declension nouns r nouns, some adjectives retain the "e" throughout inflection, and some omit it.
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Besides using the normal external plural ("-o"), nouns and adjectives can be pluralized by way of reduplicating one of the "radicals".
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Attributive adjectives are not marked for number but predicative ones are.
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Attributive adjectives agree in state with the noun they qualify, but predicative adjectives never take the initial vowel.
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